Behavioural pharmacology of octopamine, tyramine and dopamine in honey bees

Scheiner, Ricarda; Plückhahn, Stephanie; Öney, Bahar; Blenau, Wolfgang; Erber, Joachim

doi:10.1016/s0166-4328(02)00205-x

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“…In line with similar findings for A. mellifera (Scheiner et al 2002;Pankiw and Page 2003), the observed increase in sucrose responsiveness was OA dose-dependent and Figure 1. Effect of oral OA treatment on sucrose responsiveness in Melipona scutellaris .…”

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“…In honey bees, A. mellifera , the modulating effect of these neurochemicals has frequently been assessed through feeding biogenic amines dissolved in sucrose solution (e.g.,: Schulz and Robinson 2001;Scheiner et al 2002;Barron et al 2002Barron et al , 2007Pankiw and Page 2003). This simple and non-invasive method has been shown to result in a dose-dependent increase of the concentration of the respective neurochemical in the bees' brain (Schulz and Robinson 2001) and, therefore, provides a powerful tool to investigate the functional role of biogenic amines.…”

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“…In invertebrates, they may act as neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, or neurohormones, and affect several physiological levels, such as the central nervous system, the sensory periphery, the motor neurons, and the muscles (Orchard 1982;Roeder 1999;Libersat and Pflueger 2004;Scheiner et al 2006;Farooqui 2012). Their effect ranges from simple responses, such as the regulation of an individual's sensitivity to environmental stimuli or of its motivational state, to more complex ones, such as the modulation of associative learning and memory formation (Erber and Kloppenburg 1995;Hammer and Menzel 1998;Bicker 1999;Roeder 1999;Bloch et al 2000;Scheiner et al 2002Scheiner et al , 2006Burke et al 2012).…”

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“…The scope of the present study was to evaluate whether experimental procedures to investigate the influence of biogenic amines on individuals similar to those established for honey bees are feasible as well for stingless bees. Given the well-studied effect of OA on reward perception in A. mellifera (Scheiner et al 2002), we investigated whether, to which extent, and for how long experimentally increased levels of OA affect the gustatory responsiveness to sucrose in foragers of the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Apidae, Meliponini).…”

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Dose- and time-dependent effects of oral octopamine treatments on the sucrose responsiveness in stingless bees (Melipona scutellaris)

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-Biogenic amines modulate physiological responses and, consequently, the behaviour of animals. Here, we present the first pharmacological approach to evaluate the influence of octopamine (OA) in stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini), a group of highly eusocial bees distributed in the tropical and southern subtropical areas of the globe. In sucrose response threshold assays, foragers of Melipona scutellaris showed an increased responsiveness to sucrose after oral OA treatments. The effect of OA on the bees' responsiveness to sucrose was OA dose-dependent and lasted for up to 1 h. Our results indicate that experimental approaches similar to the ones used for honey bees, Apis mellifera , are feasible for stingless bees. This opens opportunities to study the variability of aminergic regulation of collective behaviour in social bees.Meliponini / biogenic amines / sucrose response threshold / neuropharmacology

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“…We have described how the honeybee superorganism uses tactile, thermal, and chemosensory cues to control growth, differentiation, homeostasis, and death. Individual bees perceive these signals through sensory receptors on their antennae, feet, and proboscis (tongue) (Gould and Gould, 1988;Snodgrass, 1956), and the subsequent integration of peripheral stimuli in the honeybee brain is an area that receives much attention (Belzunces et al, 1996;Dacher et al, 2005;Farooqui et al, 2004;Scheiner et al, 2002).…”

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Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

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Seehuus²

2006

Advances in Cancer Research

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Animal models contribute to the understanding of molecular mechanism of cancer, revealing complex roles of altered cellular-signaling networks and deficient surveillance systems. Analogous pathologies are documented in an unconventional model organism that receives attention in research on systems theory, evolution, and aging. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) colony is an advanced integrative unit, a "superorganism" in which order is controlled via complex signaling cascades and surveillance schemes. A facultatively sterile caste, the workers, regulates patterns of growth, differentiation, homeostasis, and death. Workers differentiate into temporal phenotypes in response to dynamic social cues; chemosensory signals that can translate into dramatic physiological responses, including programmed cell death. Temporal worker forms function together, and effectively identify and terminate abnormal colony members ranging from embryos to adults. As long as this regulatory system is operational at a colony level, the unit survives and propagates. However, if the worker phenotypes that collectively govern order become too few or change into malignant forms that bypass control mechanisms to replicate aberrantly; order is replaced by disorder that ultimately leads to the destruction of the society. In this chapter we describe fundamental properties of honeybee social organization, and explore conditions that lead to states of disorder. Our hope is that this chapter will be an inspirational source for ongoing and future work in the field of cancer research.

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The making of a social insect: developmental architectures of social design

2007

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We marvel at the social complexity of insects, marked by anatomically and behaviorally distinguishable castes, division of labor and specialization--but how do such systems evolve? Insect societies are composed of individuals, each undergoing its own developmental process and each containing its own genetic information and experiencing its own developmental and experiential environment. Yet societies appear to function as if the colonies themselves are individuals with novel "social genes" and novel social developmental processes. We propose an alternative hypothesis. The origins of complex social behavior, from which insect societies emerge, are derived from ancestral developmental programs. These programs originated in ancient solitary insects and required little evolutionary remodeling. We present evidence from behavioral assays, selective breeding, genetic mapping, functional genomics and endocrinology, and comparative anatomy and physiology. These insights explain how complex social behavior can evolve from heterochronic changes in reproductive signaling systems that govern ubiquitous and ancient relationships between behavior and ovarian development.

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Behavioural pharmacology of octopamine, tyramine and dopamine in honey bees

Cited by 192 publications

References 31 publications

Dose- and time-dependent effects of oral octopamine treatments on the sucrose responsiveness in stingless bees (Melipona scutellaris)

Dose- and time-dependent effects of oral octopamine treatments on the sucrose responsiveness in stingless bees (Melipona scutellaris)

Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

The making of a social insect: developmental architectures of social design

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