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Colony nutritional status modulates worker responses to foraging recruitment pheromone in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Mathieu Molet Lars Chittka Ralph J. Stelzer Sebastian Streit Nigel E. Raine 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(12):1919-1926
Foraging activity in social insects should be regulated by colony nutritional status and food availability, such that both
the emission of, and response to, recruitment signals depend on current conditions. Using fully automatic radio-frequency
identification (RFID) technology to follow the foraging activity of tagged bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) during 16,000 foraging bouts, we tested whether the cue provided by stored food (the number of full honeypots) could modulate
the response of workers to the recruitment pheromone signal. Artificial foraging pheromones were applied to colonies with
varied levels of food reserves. The response to recruitment pheromones was stronger in colonies with low food, resulting in
more workers becoming active and more foraging bouts being performed. In addition to previous reports showing that in colonies
with low food successful foragers perform more excited runs during which they release recruitment pheromone and inactive workers
are more prone to leave the nest following nectar influx, our results indicate that evolution has shaped a third pathway that
modulates bumblebee foraging activity, thus preventing needless energy expenditure and exposure to risk when food stores are
already high. This new feedback loop is intriguing since it involves context-dependent response to a signal. It highlights
the integration of information from both forager-released pheromones (signal) and nutritional status (cue) that occurs within
individual workers before making the decision to start foraging. Our results support the emerging view that responses to pheromones
may be less hardwired than commonly acknowledged.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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网络入侵诱骗技术的研究 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
在介绍基于网络和基于主机的入侵检测系统的基础上,分析了入侵诱骗技术和Hon—eypot技术。基于诱骗技术的网络安全系统是入侵检测的扩充,是网络安全技术中的一个新的研究领域,具有广阔的应用前景。 相似文献
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Recruitment in social insects often involves not only inducing nestmates to leave the nest, but also communicating crucial
information about finding profitable food sources. Although bumblebees transmit chemosensory information (floral scent), the
transmission mechanism is unknown as mouth-to-mouth fluid transfer (as in honeybees) does not occur. Because recruiting bumblebees
release a pheromone in the nest that triggers foraging in previously inactive workers, we tested whether this pheromone helps
workers learn currently rewarding floral odours, as found in food social learning in rats. We exposed colonies to artificial
recruitment pheromone, paired with anise scent. The pheromone did not facilitate learning of floral scent. However, we found
that releasing floral scent in the air of the colony was sufficient to trigger learning and that learning performance was
improved when the chemosensory cue was provided in the nectar in honeypots; probably because it guarantees a tighter link
between scent and reward, and possibly because gustatory cues are involved in addition to olfaction. Scent learning was maximal
when anise-scented nectar was brought into the nest by demonstrator foragers, suggesting that previously unidentified cues
provided by successful foragers play an important role in nestmates learning new floral odours. 相似文献
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