ArticlePloS one2016
Constitutive and Operational Variation of Learning in Foraging Predatory Mites.
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- Transgenerational effects of grandparental and parental diets combine with early-life learning to shape adaptive foraging phenotypes in Amblyseius swirskii.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Learned predators enhance biological control via organizational upward and trophic top-down cascades.The Journal of applied ecology · 2021Article
- Categorizing experience-based foraging plasticity in mites: age dependency, primacy effects and memory persistence.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Interference in early dual-task learning by predatory mites.Animal behaviour · 2017Article
- Transgenerational loss and recovery of early learning ability in foraging predatory mites.Experimental & applied acarology · 2017Article
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- Maternal diet exerts sex-specific effects on offspring' personalities in predatory mites.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Learning is widely documented across animal taxa but studies stringently scrutinizing the causes of constitutive or operational variation of learning among populations and individuals are scarce. The ability to learn is genetically determined and subject to constitutive variation while the performance in learning depends on the immediate circumstances and is subject to operational variation. We assessed variation in learning ability and performance of plant-inhabiting predatory mites, Amblyseius swirskii, caused by population origin, rearing diet, and type of experience. Using an early learning foraging paradigm, we determined that homogeneous single prey environments did not select for reduced learning ability, as compared to natural prey-diverse environments, whereas a multi-generational pollen diet resulted in loss of learning, as compared to a diet of live prey. Associative learning produced stronger effects than non-associative learning but both types of experience produced persistent memory. Our study represents a key example of environmentally caused variation in learning ability and performance.
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