Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2020 Dec;42:47-54. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2020.09.003. Epub 2020 Sep 15.
Parasitic wasps and their larval hosts are intimately connected by an array of behavioral adaptations and counter-adaptations. This co-evolution has led to highly specific, natural variation in learning rates and memory consolidation in parasitoid wasps. Similarly, the hosts of the parasitoids show specific sensory adaptations as well as non-associative learning strategies for parasitoid avoidance. However, these neuronal and behavioral adaptations of both hosts and wasps have so far been studied largely apart from each other. Here we argue that a parallel investigation of the nervous system in wasps and their hosts might lead to novel insights into the evolution of insect behavior and the neurobiology of learning and memory.
寄生蜂与其幼虫宿主之间通过一系列行为适应和反适应紧密相连。这种共同进化导致了寄生蜂学习率和记忆巩固的高度特异性和自然变异。同样，寄生蜂的宿主也表现出特定的感觉适应和非联想性学习策略来避免被寄生。然而，迄今为止，这些宿主和寄生蜂的神经元和行为适应在很大程度上是彼此独立研究的。在这里，我们认为对寄生蜂及其宿主的神经系统进行平行研究，可能会为昆虫行为的进化以及学习和记忆的神经生物学提供新的见解。
