The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
Environ Toxicol Chem. 2011 Dec;30(12):2883-7. doi: 10.1002/etc.690. Epub 2011 Oct 14.
Social facilitation is the initiation or increase of a trait, such as stressor tolerance, when in the presence of conspecifics, members of the same species. It has been shown to alter the outcome of toxicity experiments in colonial organisms. We evaluated whether social facilitation would impact responses to stressors in the noncolonial New Mexico ramshorn snail (Planorbella trivolvis) by exposing snails to stressors either singly or in groups of three. Social facilitation did not impact snail responses to malathion but did affect responses to predator cues and temperature stress.
社会促进是指当同物种的同类存在时，特质（如压力耐受）的起始或增强。它已被证明会改变殖民地生物毒性实验的结果。我们通过单独或成组（每组三只）暴露于胁迫源来评估社会促进是否会影响非殖民地新墨西哥州圆田螺（Planorbella trivolvis）对胁迫源的反应。社会促进作用并不影响蜗牛对马拉硫磷的反应，但确实会影响对捕食者线索和温度胁迫的反应。
