Botzer D, Blumberg S, Ziv I, Susswein A J
Department of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Behav Neural Biol. 1991 Nov;56(3):251-61. doi: 10.1016/0163-1047(91)90394-6.
We examined whether pheromones released by reproductive behaviors (mating and egg-laying) affect feeding behavior. A preliminary experiment demonstrated that the quantity of food eaten can be used to measure the effects of pheromones on feeding. Using this measure, we then showed that Aplysia that were prevented from mating, but that were in the same aquarium as mating conspecifics, eat more food than do Aplysia in a medium lacking mating animals. Mating and feeding were not temporally correlated, indicating that pheromones released by mating probably do not initiate feeding, but rather modulate feeding after it has begun. Aplysia that were in the same aquarium as freshly deposited egg cordons also ate more than did animals in a medium lacking eggs.
我们研究了由生殖行为（交配和产卵）释放的信息素是否会影响摄食行为。一项初步实验表明，所进食食物的量可用于衡量信息素对摄食的影响。利用这一衡量方法，我们随后发现，被阻止交配但与正在交配的同种个体处于同一水族箱中的海兔，比处于没有交配动物的培养基中的海兔进食更多食物。交配和摄食在时间上没有相关性，这表明交配释放的信息素可能不会引发摄食，而是在摄食开始后对其进行调节。与刚产下的卵带处于同一水族箱中的海兔也比没有卵的培养基中的动物进食更多。
