Dyer Fred C
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
Annu Rev Entomol. 2002;47:917-49. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145306.
Honey bee foragers dance to communicate the spatial location of food and other resources to their nestmates. This remarkable communication system has long served as an important model system for studying mechanisms and evolution of complex behavior. I provide a broad synthesis of recent research on dance communication, concentrating on the areas that are currently the focus of active research. Specific issues considered are as follows: (a) the sensory and integrative mechanisms underlying the processing of spatial information in dance communication, (b) the role of dance communication in regulating the recruitment of workers to resources in the environment, (c) the evolution of the dance language, and (d) the adaptive fine-tuning of the dance for efficient spatial communication.
蜜蜂采集者通过跳舞向巢友传达食物和其他资源的空间位置。这种非凡的通讯系统长期以来一直是研究复杂行为机制和进化的重要模型系统。我对近期关于舞蹈通讯的研究进行了广泛综述，重点关注当前活跃研究的领域。所考虑的具体问题如下：(a) 舞蹈通讯中空间信息处理的感觉和整合机制；(b) 舞蹈通讯在调节工蜂前往环境中资源的招募方面的作用；(c) 舞蹈语言的进化；以及 (d) 为实现高效空间通讯而对舞蹈进行的适应性微调。
