Ai Hiroyuki, Farina Walter M
Department of Earth System Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Laboratorio de Insectos Sociales, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2023 Jun 29;17:1140657. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1140657. eCollection 2023.
Honey bees represent an iconic model animal for studying the underlying mechanisms affecting advanced sensory and cognitive abilities during communication among colony mates. After von Frisch discovered the functional value of the waggle dance, this complex motor pattern led ethologists and neuroscientists to study its neural mechanism, behavioral significance, and implications for a collective organization. Recent studies have revealed some of the mechanisms involved in this symbolic form of communication by using conventional behavioral and pharmacological assays, neurobiological studies, comprehensive molecular and connectome analyses, and computational models. This review summarizes several critical behavioral and brain processes and mechanisms involved in waggle dance communication. We focus on the role of neuromodulators in the dancer and the recruited follower, the interneurons and their related processing in the first mechano-processing, and the computational navigation centers of insect brains.
蜜蜂是研究群体成员间交流过程中影响高级感官和认知能力潜在机制的标志性模式动物。在冯·弗里施发现摆尾舞的功能价值后，这种复杂的运动模式促使动物行为学家和神经科学家研究其神经机制、行为意义以及对群体组织的影响。最近的研究通过使用传统的行为和药理学检测、神经生物学研究、综合分子和连接组分析以及计算模型，揭示了这种符号化交流形式所涉及的一些机制。本综述总结了摆尾舞交流中几个关键的行为和大脑过程及机制。我们重点关注神经调质在舞者和被招募的跟随者中的作用、第一机械加工中的中间神经元及其相关处理，以及昆虫大脑的计算导航中心。
