Aversive conditioning in honey bees (Apis mellifera anatolica): a comparison of drones and workers

Autor: David Philip Arthur Craig, Tugrul Giray, Charles I. Abramson, Christopher A. Varnon, Christopher W. Dinges, Zoe M. Austin, Arian Avalos, Fatima Nur Dal, Harrington Wells
Přispěvatelé: Uludağ Üniversitesi/Mustafakemalpaşa Meslek Yüksekokulu/Arıcılık Geliştirme-Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi., Dal, Fatıma Nur, Giray, Tuğrul
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
Male
Punishment (psychology)
Turkey
Physiology
Honeybee
Model system
Audiology
Turkey (republic)
Honey Bees
Escape Reaction
Discrimination
Conditioning
Psychological
Mechanisms
Workers
Response Frequency
Brain
Bees
Division-of-labor
Shock (circulatory)
Volume changes
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
medicine.medical_specialty
Plasticity
Animals
Apis Mellifera
Aquatic Science
Aversive conditioning
Proboscis extension
Honey bees
Article
Aversion conditioning
Learning-performance
Punishment
Object-oriented modeling
medicine
Avoidance Learning
Escape behavior
Molecular Biology
Biology
Bee
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics
Life sciences & biomedicine - other topics
Drones
Communication
Mushroom bodies
business.industry
Animal
Avoidance behavior
Behavioral-development
Drone
Insect Science
Conditioning (psychology)
Animal Science and Zoology
Comparative study
business
Conditioning
Zdroj: The Journal of experimental biology. 216(Pt 21)
ISSN: 1477-9145
Popis: Honey bees provide a model system to elucidate the relationship between sociality and complex behaviors within the same species, as females (workers) are highly social and males (drones) are more solitary. We report on aversive learning studies in drone and worker honey bees (Apis mellifera anatolica) in escape, punishment and discriminative punishment situations. In all three experiments, a newly developed electric shock avoidance assay was used. The comparisons of expected and observed responses were performed with conventional statistical methods and a systematic randomization modeling approach called object oriented modeling. The escape experiment consisted of two measurements recorded in a master-yoked paradigm: frequency of response and latency to respond following administration of shock. Master individuals could terminate an unavoidable shock triggered by a decrementing 30 s timer by crossing the shuttlebox centerline following shock activation. Across all groups, there was large individual response variation. When assessing group response frequency and latency, master subjects performed better than yoked subjects for both workers and drones. In the punishment experiment, individuals were shocked upon entering the shock portion of a bilaterally wired shuttlebox. The shock portion was spatially static and unsignalled. Only workers effectively avoided the shock. The discriminative punishment experiment repeated the punishment experiment but included a counterbalanced blue and yellow background signal and the side of shock was manipulated. Drones correctly responded less than workers when shock was paired with blue. However, when shock was paired with yellow there was no observable difference between drones and workers. National Science Foundation -- DBI 0552717 National Science Foundation -- 1263327
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