守卫蜜蜂（西方蜜蜂）的巢伴识别模板会因巢脾转移而改变。
Nest-mate recognition template of guard honeybees (Apis mellifera) is modified by wax comb transfer.
作者信息
Couvillon Margaret J, Caple Jamie P, Endsor Samuel L, Kärcher Martin, Russell Trudy E, Storey Darren E, Ratnieks Francis L W
机构信息
Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
出版信息
Biol Lett. 2007 Jun 22;3(3):228-30. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0612.
In recognition, discriminators use sensory information to make decisions. For example, honeybee (Apis mellifera) entrance guards discriminate between nest-mates and intruders by comparing their odours with a template of the colony odour. Comb wax plays a major role in honeybee recognition. We measured the rejection rates of nest-mate and non-nest-mate worker bees by entrance guards before and after a unidirectional transfer of wax comb from a 'comb donor' hive to a 'comb receiver' hive. Our results showed a significant effect that occurred in one direction. Guards in the comb receiver hive became more accepting of non-nest-mates from the comb donor hive (rejection decreased from 70 to 47%); however, guards in the comb donor hive did not become more accepting of bees from the comb receiver hive. These data strongly support the hypothesis that the transfer of wax comb increases the acceptance of non-nest-mates not by changing the odour of the bees, but by changing the template used by guards.
在识别过程中，辨别者利用感官信息来做出决策。例如，蜜蜂（西方蜜蜂）的入口守卫通过将巢友和入侵者的气味与蜂群气味模板进行比较来区分它们。巢脾蜡在蜜蜂识别中起着重要作用。我们测量了单向将巢脾从“巢脾供体”蜂箱转移到“巢脾受体”蜂箱前后，入口守卫对巢友和非巢友工蜂的拒绝率。我们的结果显示出在一个方向上出现了显著影响。巢脾受体蜂箱中的守卫对来自巢脾供体蜂箱的非巢友变得更加接纳（拒绝率从70%降至47%）；然而，巢脾供体蜂箱中的守卫对来自巢脾受体蜂箱的蜜蜂并没有变得更加接纳。这些数据有力地支持了这样一个假设，即巢脾的转移增加了对非巢友的接纳，不是通过改变蜜蜂的气味，而是通过改变守卫所使用的模板。
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