Is death–feigning adaptive? Heritable variation in fitness difference of death–feigning behaviour

Miyatake, Takahisa; Katayama, Kohji; Takeda, Yuichiro; Nakashima, Akiko; Sugita, Atsushi; Mizumoto, Makoto

doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2858

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“…Thanatosis has been studied for over a century and appears in a variety of vertebrates and invertebrates. These animals include 8 amphibians (e.g., Gargaglioni et al 2001, Bertoluci et al 2007, birds (e.g., Sargeant & Eberhardt 1975;Rovee et al 1976), fish (e.g., Howe, 1991;Gibran, 2004), mammals (e.g., Francq, 1969;Kimble, 1997), reptiles (e.g., Greene, 1988;Santos et al, 2010;Burghardt & Greene, 1988;Harding, 1997), spiders (e.g., Cloudsley-Thompson, 1995), and a staggering array of insects: beetles (Chemsak & Linsley, 1970;Prohammer and Wade, 1981;Allen, 1990;Oliver, 1996;Acheampong & Mitchell, 1997;Miyatake, 2001a,b;Miyatake et al, 2004), cicada (Villet, 1999), crickets (Nishino & Sakai, 1996), lepidopterans (Tojo et al, 1985;Dudley, 1989;Larsen, 1991), mantids (Edmunds, 1972),…”

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Studies of learned helplessness in honey bees (Apis mellifera ligustica).

Dinges¹,

Varnon²,

Cota³

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cogniti

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The current study provides evidence of learned helplessness in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Bees received either avoidable or unavoidable shock during a discriminative compartment restriction task in an automated shuttle box. Decreased avoidance behavior was observed when bees received unavoidable shock prior to avoidable shock tests, conserving a non-preference response pattern. Prior training with avoidable shock created a preference that was conserved when shock was later unavoidable. Length of the training time impacted how pronounced the conserved behavior was in subsequent tests. Unlike existing learned helplessness studies in other animals, no decrease in general activity was observed. These findings identify honey bees as a unique model organism to explore the process of learned helplessness.v

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Studies of learned helplessness in honey bees (Apis mellifera ligustica).

Dinges¹,

Varnon²,

Cota³

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cogniti

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“…If predators are allowed to respond to prey behaviour, the expectations about prey behaviour can change radically (Lima 2002). Here, we examine the adaptive significance of death-feigning behaviour, the function of which has seldom been examined using purpose-designed experimentation (Miyatake et al 2004;Ruxton et al 2004), from a novel viewpoint that includes the foraging modes of predators.…”

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Adaptive significance of death feigning posture as a specialized inducible defence against gape-limited predators

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Death feigning is fairly common in a number of taxa, but the adaptive significance of this behaviour is still unclear and has seldom been tested. To date, all proposed hypotheses have assumed that prey manage to escape predation by sending a death-mimicking signal, although death-feigning postures are markedly different from those of dead animals. Moreover, the efficacy of this technique may largely depend on the foraging mode of the predator; death feigning seldom works with sit-and-wait predators that make the decision to attack and consume prey within a very brief time. We examined whether death feigning in the pygmy grasshopper Criotettix japonicus Haan was an inducible defence behaviour against the frog Rana nigromaculata, a sit-and-wait, gape-limited predator. The characteristic posture assumed by the grasshopper during death feigning enlarges its functional body size by stretching each of three body parts (pronotum, hind legs and lateral spines) in three different directions, thereby making it difficult for the predator to swallow the prey. Our result is the first consistent explanation for why death-mimicking animals do not always mimic the posture of dead animals.

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“…castaneum used in this study was a laboratory strain of Evolutionary Ecology, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Japan 12) .…”

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Effects of γ-Irradiation on Larval and Adult Stages of Tribolium castaneum (Red Flour Beetle)

Sultana¹,

Minami²,

Ichiba³

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FOOD IRRADIATION, JAPAN

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Food irradiation using -rays is one of powerful tools to reduce insect infestation in crops and spices. We examined the effects of -irradiation on larvae and adults of Tribolium castaneum. Eclosion for larvae was completely inhibited by irradiation at 500 Gy. A survival rate for adults was markedly reduced by irradiation at more than 500 Gy. The neutral comet assay presented that irradiation irreversibly increased DNA damage at 500 and 1000 Gy and transiently increased DNA damage at 100 Gy, suggesting possible DNA repair in larvae and adults stages. These results indicate that -irradiation at 500 Gy is available to eradicate the beetle at larval and adults stages.

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Is death–feigning adaptive? Heritable variation in fitness difference of death–feigning behaviour

Cited by 191 publications

References 16 publications

Studies of learned helplessness in honey bees (Apis mellifera ligustica).

Studies of learned helplessness in honey bees (Apis mellifera ligustica).

Adaptive significance of death feigning posture as a specialized inducible defence against gape-limited predators

Effects of γ-Irradiation on Larval and Adult Stages of Tribolium castaneum (Red Flour Beetle)

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