Cued in: honey bee pheromones as information flow 
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Pankiw, Tanya

doi:10.1051/apido:2004009

Cited by 75 publications

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“…Approximately 50 substances synthesized by honeybee queens, workers, and brood have been identified as having functional roles in social organization (Pankiw, 2004b). Remarkable physiological effects of such compounds have been a driving force of studies exploring if interindividual dynamics can translate into patterns of cell growth and cell death .…”

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Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

Amdam¹,

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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Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

Amdam¹,

Seehuus²

2006

Advances in Cancer Research

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“…There also may have been interindividual variation in dose caused by differences in food consumption. In addition, a low dose of BP accelerates age at onset of foraging, whereas a high dose delays it (12,28). It is not known whether the BP results are directly attributable to EO, but they show that the regulation of age at onset of foraging is a complex and multifactorial process that involves social inhibition and likely other forms of social modulation as well.…”

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Regulation of behavioral maturation by a primer pheromone produced by adult worker honey bees

Leoncini

Conte

Costagliola

et al. 2004

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Previous research showed that the presence of older workers causes a delayed onset of foraging in younger individuals in honey bee colonies, but a specific worker inhibitory factor had not yet been identified. Here, we report on the identification of a substance produced by adult forager honey bees, ethyl oleate, that acts as a chemical inhibitory factor to delay age at onset of foraging. Ethyl oleate is synthesized de novo and is present in highest concentrations in the bee's crop. These results suggest that worker behavioral maturation is modulated via trophallaxis, a form of food exchange that also serves as a prominent communication channel in insect societies. Our findings provide critical validation for a model of self-organization explaining how bees are able to respond to fragmentary information with actions that are appropriate to the state of the whole colony.

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“…Subsequent increases in pollen quantity, in turn, are believed to be distributed throughout the colony's biomass. As a result, nursing bees provide an increased food supply to the queen, stimulating a higher rate of posture and brood production, which enhance population growth (Pankiw and Page, 2001;Le Contel et al, 2001;Pankiw, 1998Pankiw, , 2004.…”

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Experimental evaluation of the reproductive quality of Africanized queen bees (Apis mellifera) on the basis of body weight at emergence

Souza

Bezzera-Laure²,

Francoy³

et al. 2013

Genet. Mol. Res.

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ABSTRACT. There has been much speculation about which phenotypic traits serve as reliable indicators of productivity in queen honeybees (Apis mellifera). To investigate the predictive value of queen body weight on colony development and quality, we compared colonies in which queens weighed less than 180 mg to those in which queens weighed more than 200 mg. Both groups contained naturally mated and instrumentally inseminated queens. Colonies were evaluated on the basis of performance quality, growth rate, and queen longevity. We found that queen body weight was significantly correlated with fecundity and colony quality. Heavy queens exhibited the most favorable performance and colony quality. In contrast, naturally mated,

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Cued in: honey bee pheromones as information flow and collective decision-making

Cited by 75 publications

References 37 publications

Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

Order, Disorder, Death: Lessons from a Superorganism

Regulation of behavioral maturation by a primer pheromone produced by adult worker honey bees

Experimental evaluation of the reproductive quality of Africanized queen bees (Apis mellifera) on the basis of body weight at emergence

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