Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal

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	Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal
	Tan, Ken
刊名	PLOS BIOLOGY
	2016
卷号	14 期号:3e1002423
关键词	APIS-MELLIFERA VIBRATIONAL SIGNALS DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR PREDATION RISK TREMBLE DANCE CALLS CERANA COMMUNICATION ORGANIZATION RESPONSES
中文摘要	Alarm communication is a key adaptation that helps social groups resist predation and rally defenses. In Asia, the world's largest hornet, Vespa mandarinia, and the smaller hornet, Vespa velutina, prey upon foragers and nests of the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana. We attacked foragers and colony nest entrances with these predators and provide the first evidence, in social insects, of an alarm signal that encodes graded danger and attack context. We show that, like Apis mellifera, A. cerana possesses a vibrational "stop signal," which can be triggered by predator attacks upon foragers and inhibits waggle dancing. Large hornet attacks were more dangerous and resulted in higher bee mortality. Per attack at the colony level, large hornets elicited more stop signals than small hornets. Unexpectedly, stop signals elicited by large hornets (SS (large hornet)) had a significantly higher vibrational fundamental frequency than those elicited by small hornets (SS (small hornet)) and were more effective at inhibiting waggle dancing. Stop signals resulting from attacks upon the nest entrance (SS nest) were produced by foragers and guards and were significantly longer in pulse duration than stop signals elicited by attacks upon foragers (SS (forager)). Unlike SS (forager), SS (nest) were targeted at dancing and non-dancing foragers and had the common effect, tuned to hornet threat level, of inhibiting bee departures from the safe interior of the nest. Meanwhile, nest defenders were triggered by the bee alarm pheromone and live hornet presence to heat-ball the hornet. In A. cerana, sophisticated recruitment communication that encodes food location, the waggle dance, is therefore matched with an inhibitory/alarm signal that encodes information about the context of danger and its threat level.
公开日期	2016-05-04
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/9737]
专题	西双版纳热带植物园_2012年后新成立研究组
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tan, Ken. Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal[J]. PLOS BIOLOGY,2016,14(3e1002423).
APA	Tan, Ken.(2016).Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal.PLOS BIOLOGY,14(3e1002423).
MLA	Tan, Ken."Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal".PLOS BIOLOGY 14.3e1002423(2016).