Conspecific and interspecific stimuli reduce initial performance in an aversive learning task in honey bees (Apis mellifera)
| Autor: | Charles I. Abramson, Adam J. Vest, Christopher W. Dinges, Christopher A. Varnon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Social Sciences
Insect Discrimination Learning Polistes exclamans Honey Bees Learning and Memory 0302 clinical medicine Sociology Behavioral Conditioning Psychology Foraging Animal Management media_common 0303 health sciences Social Research Multidisciplinary Animal Behavior biology Eukaryota Agriculture Bees Insects Social Systems behavior and behavior mechanisms Medicine Research Article Arthropoda media_common.quotation_subject Science Stimulus (physiology) complex mixtures 03 medical and health sciences Animals Learning Interpersonal Relations 030304 developmental biology Behavior Animal Performance Communication business.industry fungi Organisms Cognitive Psychology Biology and Life Sciences Honey bee Interspecific competition biology.organism_classification Social learning Invertebrates Hymenoptera Cognitive Science business Zoology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 2, p e0228161 (2020) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this experiment was to investigate whether honey bees (Apis mellifera) are able to use social discriminative stimuli in a spatial aversive conditioning paradigm. We tested bees’ ability to avoid shock in a shuttle box apparatus across multiple groups when either shock, or the absence of shock, was associated with a live hive mate, a dead hive mate, a live Polistes exclamans wasp or a dead wasp. Additionally, we used several control groups common to bee shuttle box research where shock was only associated with spatial cues, or where shock was associated with a blue or yellow color. While bees were able to learn the aversive task in a simple spatial discrimination, the presence of any other stimuli (color, another bee, or a wasp) reduced initial performance. While the color biases we discovered are in line with other experiments, the finding that the presence of another animal reduces performance is novel. Generally, it appears that the use of bees or wasps as stimuli initially causes an increase in overall activity that interferes with early performance in the spatial task. During the course of the experiment, the bees habituate to the insect stimuli (bee or wasp), and begin learning the aversive task. Additionally, we found that experimental subject bees did not discriminate between bees or wasps used as stimulus animals, nor did they discriminate between live or dead stimulus animals. This may occur, in part, due to the specialized nature of the worker honey bee. Results are discussed with implications for continual research on honey bees as models of aversive learning, as well as research on insect social learning in general. |
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