ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2010
An alarm pheromone modulates appetitive olfactory learning in the honeybee (apis mellifera).
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- Conspecific and interspecific stimuli reduce initial performance in an aversive learning task in honey bees (Apis mellifera).PloS one · 2020Article
- Honey Bee Alarm Pheromone Mediates Communication in Plant-Pollinator-Predator Interactions.Insects · 2019Review
- Changes in responsiveness to allatostatin treatment accompany shifts in stress reactivity in young worker honey bees.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
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- Complementary Specializations of the Left and Right Sides of the Honeybee Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Neuronal Response Latencies Encode First Odor Identity Information across Subjects.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Colony-level non-associative plasticity of alarm responses in the stingless honey bee, Tetragonisca angustula.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2018Article
- Cooperative defence operates by social modulation of biogenic amine levels in the honey bee brain.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Pheromones modulate reward responsiveness and non-associative learning in honey bees.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Social signals and aversive learning in honey bee drones and workers.Biology open · 2017Article
- C-type allatostatins mimic stress-related effects of alarm pheromone on honey bee learning and memory recall.PloS one · 2017Article
- Honey Bees Modulate Their Olfactory Learning in the Presence of Hornet Predators and Alarm Component.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
In honeybees, associative learning is embedded in a social context as bees possess a highly complex social organization in which communication among individuals is mediated by dance behavior informing about food sources, and by a high variety of pheromones that maintain the social links between individuals of a hive. Proboscis extension response conditioning is a case of appetitive learning, in which harnessed bees learn to associate odor stimuli with sucrose reward in the laboratory. Despite its recurrent use as a tool for uncovering the behavioral, cellular, and molecular bases underlying associative learning, the question of whether social signals (pheromones) affect appetitive learning has not been addressed in this experimental framework. This situation contrasts with reports underlining that foraging activity of bees is modulated by alarm pheromones released in the presence of a potential danger. Here, we show that appetitive learning is impaired by the sting alarm pheromone (SAP) which, when released by guards, recruits foragers to defend the hive. This effect is mimicked by the main component of SAP, isopentyl acetate, is dose-dependent and lasts up to 24 h. Learning impairment is specific to alarm signal exposure and is independent of the odorant used for conditioning. Our results suggest that learning impairment may be a response to the biological significance of SAP as an alarm signal, which would detract bees from responding to any appetitive stimuli in a situation in which such responses would be of secondary importance.
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