Food wanting is mediated by transient activation of dopaminergic signaling in the honey bee brain

Autor: Jingnan Huang, Zhaonan Zhang, Wangjiang Feng, Yuanhong Zhao, Anna Aldanondo, Maria Gabriela de Brito Sanchez, Marco Paoli, Angele Rolland, Zhiguo Li, Hongyi Nie, Yan Lin, Shaowu Zhang, Martin Giurfa, Songkun Su
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Science. 376:508-512
ISSN: 1095-9203
0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.abn9920
Popis: The biological bases of wanting have been characterized in mammals, but whether an equivalent wanting system exists in insects remains unknown. In this study, we focused on honey bees, which perform intensive foraging activities to satisfy colony needs, and sought to determine whether foragers leave the hive driven by specific expectations about reward and whether they recollect these expectations during their waggle dances. We monitored foraging and dance behavior and simultaneously quantified and interfered with biogenic amine signaling in the bee brain. We show that a dopamine-dependent wanting system is activated transiently in the bee brain by increased appetite and individual recollection of profitable food sources, both en route to the goal and during waggle dances. Our results show that insects share with mammals common neural mechanisms for encoding wanting of stimuli with positive hedonic value.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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