Influence of sugar experience during development on gustatory sensitivity of the honey bee

Mustard, Julie A.; Akyol, Ethem; Robles, Karin D.; Öztürk, Cahit; Kaftanoğlu, Osman

doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.05.002

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“…They can display changes in phenotypic traits (physiological or behavioral) at the adult stage depending on the pre-imaginal rearing context. For example, they can show changes in chemosensory and learning abilities (Mustard et al 2019;Ramírez et al 2016), aggressive behavior (Rittschof et al 2015), and resilience to pesticides (Medrzycki et al 2010) or to starvation (Wang et al 2016). Female bees can also display two phenotypes or castes with different functions within the colony during the imaginal stage as a consequence of phenotypic plasticity, called polyphenism (Corona et al 2016;Simpson et al 2011).…”

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Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts

Vázquez

Farina

2020

Apidologie

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In vitro rearing of honey bees is becoming a widely employed procedure. Nevertheless, few studies have assessed its impact on brood development considering nutritional and social differences between both in vitro and in-hive rearing contexts. We compared developmental parameters between these two contexts using an intraframe grafting procedure. We confirmed a grafting effect on development. However, pre-imaginal survival did not depend on the rearing procedure. The correlation in mortality between groups of larvae (exposed or not to grafting) was independent of the rearing context suggesting transmission of inheritable and infectious factors. In addition, the comparison between contexts showed that in vitro larvae had delayed molting and achieved emergence 1.57 days later. Furthermore, in vitro imagoes emerged with lower weight and shorter wing length than in-hive bees. Our results strengthen the idea that there is an in vitro phenotype as a consequence of phenotypic plasticity.

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Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts

Vázquez

Farina

2020

Apidologie

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“…The PER has been used widely to characterize the sensitivity of chemical receptors of flies and bees (e.g. Simcock et al, 2014;Lau et al, 2016;Mustard et al, 2019) and as a conditioned response in learning trials (e.g., Yuval & Galun 1987;Arien et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2015Liu et al, , 2017. In our experiment, we tested the response of adult flies to a solution containing either bacteria derived from an adult female fly, or yeast growing in fermented papaya juice.…”

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Behavioral responses of the invasive flyPhilornis downsito stimuli from bacteria and yeast in the laboratory and the field in the Galapagos Islands

Yuval

Lahuatte

Polpass

et al. 2019

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Philornis downsi (Diptera: Muscidae) is a nest parasitic fly that has invaded the Galapagos archipelago and exerts an onerous burden on populations of endemic land birds.As part of an ongoing effort to develop tools for the integrated management of this fly, our objective was to determine its long and short-range responses to bacterial and yeast cues associated with adult P. downsi. We hypothesized that the bacterial and yeast communities will elicit attraction at distance through volatiles, and appetitive responses upon contact.Accordingly, we amplified bacteria from guts of adult field-caught individuals and bird feces, and yeasts from fermenting papaya juice (a known attractant of P. downsi), on selective growth media, and assayed the response of flies to these microbes or their exudates. In the field, we baited traps with bacteria or yeast and monitored adult fly attraction. In the laboratory, we used the Proboscis Extension Response (PER) to determine the sensitivity of males and females to tarsal contact with bacteria or yeast. Long range trapping efforts yielded two female flies over 112 trap nights (one in extracts from bird faeces and one in extracts from gut bacteria from adult flies). In the laboratory, tarsal contact with bacterial stimuli from gut bacteria from adult flies elicited significantly more responses than did yeast stimuli. We discuss the significance of these findings in context with other studies in the field and identify targets for future work.

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“…The PER has been used widely to characterize the sensitivity of chemical receptors of flies and bees [50][51][52] and as a conditioned response in learning trials [39,[53][54][55]. In our experiment, we tested the response of adult flies to a suspension containing either bacteria derived from the gut of an adult female fly, or yeast growing in fermented papaya juice.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioral Responses of the Invasive Fly Philornis downsi to Stimuli from Bacteria and Yeast in the Laboratory and the Field in the Galapagos Islands

Yuval

Lahuatte

Jose

et al. 2019

Insects

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Philornis downsi Dodge and Aitken (Diptera: Muscidae) is an avian parasitic fly that has invaded the Galapagos archipelago and exerts an onerous burden on populations of endemic land birds. As part of an ongoing effort to develop tools for the integrated management of this fly, our objective was to determine its long- and short-range responses to bacterial and fungal cues associated with adult P. downsi. We hypothesized that the bacterial and fungal communities would elicit attraction at distance through volatiles, and appetitive responses upon contact. Accordingly, we amplified bacteria from guts of adult field-caught flies and from bird feces, and yeasts from fermenting papaya juice (a known attractant of P. downsi), on selective growth media, and assayed the response of flies to these microbes or their exudates. In the field, we baited traps with bacteria or yeast and monitored adult fly attraction. In the laboratory, we used the proboscis extension response (PER) to determine the sensitivity of males and females to tarsal contact with bacteria or yeast. Long range trapping efforts yielded two female flies over 112 trap-nights (attracted by bacteria from bird feces and from the gut of adult flies). In the laboratory, tarsal contact with stimuli from gut bacteria elicited significantly more responses than did yeast stimuli. We discuss the significance of these findings in context with other studies in the field and identify targets for future work.

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Influence of sugar experience during development on gustatory sensitivity of the honey bee

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts

Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts

Behavioral responses of the invasive flyPhilornis downsito stimuli from bacteria and yeast in the laboratory and the field in the Galapagos Islands

Behavioral Responses of the Invasive Fly Philornis downsi to Stimuli from Bacteria and Yeast in the Laboratory and the Field in the Galapagos Islands

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