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ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2017

Sexual response of male Drosophila to honey bee queen mandibular pheromone: implications for genetic studies of social insects.

Justin R Croft, Tom Liu, Alison L Camiletti, Anne F Simon, Graham J Thompson

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Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Honeybee queen mandibular pheromone fails to regulate ovary activation in the common wasp.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022
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  2. The Power ofFrontiers in physiology · 2021
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Justin R CroftBiology Department, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Tom LiuBiology Department, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Alison L CamilettiBiology Department, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Anne F SimonBiology Department, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
Graham J ThompsonBiology Department, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada. graham.thompson@uwo.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5340-7467

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Abstract

Honey bees secrete a queen mandibular pheromone that renders workers reproductively altruistic and drones sexually attentive. This sex-specific function of QMP may have evolved from a sexually dimorphic signaling mechanism derived from pre-social ancestors. If so, there is potential for pre-social insects to respond to QMP, and in a manner that is comparable to its normal effect on workers and drones. Remarkably, QMP applied to female Drosophila does induce worker-like qualities [Camiletti et al. (Entomol Exp Appl 147:262, 2013)], and we here extend this comparison to examine the effects of bee pheromone on male fruit flies. We find that male Drosophila melanogaster consistently orient towards a source of queen pheromone in a T-maze, suggesting a recruitment response comparable to the pheromone's normal effect on drones. Moreover, exposure to QMP renders male flies more sexually attentive; they display intensified pre-copulatory behavior towards conspecific females. We can inhibit this sexual effect through a loss-of-olfactory-function mutation, which suggests that the pheromone-responsive behavioral mechanism is olfactory-driven. These pheromone-induced changes to male Drosophila behavior suggest that aspects of sexual signaling are conserved between these two distantly related taxa. Our results highlight a role for Drosophila as a genetically tractable pre-social model for studies of social insect biology.

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AnimalsBeesDrosophila melanogasterFemaleMaleMaze LearningPheromonesSexual Behavior, AnimalSmellSocial BehaviorSpecies SpecificityPheromonesApis melliferaChemical ecologyFertility signalsSocial evolutionSocial pheromones

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