The influence of social environment on cooperation and conflict in an incipiently social bee, Ceratina calcarata

Huisken, Jesse L.; Shell, Wyatt A.; Pare, Hannah K.; Rehan, Sandra M.

doi:10.1007/s00265-021-03011-6

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“…in which they usually rear a single brood per year 31 . This form of stem nesting makes the Ceratina highly tractable for empirical study, and three species ( C. japonica , C. calcarata , and C. australensis ) have already emerged as powerful models for research into behavioral ecology 32 , 33 , sociogenomics 34 – 37 , and the combined influences of both nutrition and microbial composition on development and behavior 14 , 38 , 39 . Generation of metagenomic data for these species in particular would provide novel insights into wild bee ecology while greatly advancing the comparative study of bee health overall.…”

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Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes

Shell

Rehan

2022

Commun Biol

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The holobiont approach proposes that species are most fully understood within the context of their associated microbiomes, and that both host and microbial community are locked in a mutual circuit of co-evolutionary selection. Bees are an ideal group for this approach, as they comprise a critical group of pollinators that contribute to both ecological and agricultural health worldwide. Metagenomic analyses offer comprehensive insights into an organism’s microbiome, diet, and viral load, but remain largely unapplied to wild bees. Here, we present metagenomic data from three species of carpenter bees sampled from around the globe, representative of the first ever carpenter bee core microbiome. Machine learning, co-occurrence, and network analyses reveal that wild bee metagenomes are unique to host species. Further, we find that microbiomes are likely strongly affected by features of their local environment, and feature evidence of plant pathogens previously known only in honey bees. Performing the most comprehensive comparative analysis of bee microbiomes to date we discover that microbiome diversity is inversely proportional to host species social complexity. Our study helps to establish some of the first wild bee hologenomic data while offering powerful empirical insights into the biology and health of vital pollinators.

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Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes

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Rehan

2022

Commun Biol

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“…Social hierarchies can be found across the animal kingdom, from insects ( Monnin and Peeters, 1999 ; Huisken et al, 2021 ) and crustaceans ( Edwards et al, 2003 ; Stewart and Tabak, 2011 ) to fish ( Olsen and Ringø, 1999 ), birds ( Noble, 1939 ), and primates ( Michopoulos et al, 2012 ). While these vary significantly in their structure and flexibility, hierarchies emerge spontaneously across a phylogenetically wide range of social species.…”

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Stress, Subordination, and Anomalies of Feeding Across the Tree of Life: Implications for Interpreting Human Eating Disorders

Natterson-Horowitz

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2021

Front. Psychol.

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Eating behaviors of animals living in naturalistic environments offer unique insights into several dysregulated eating patterns observed in humans. Social subordination is a known precipitant of hyperphagia and hypophagia in human beings, and examples of similar responses have been identified in a phylogenetically widespread range of vertebral species. This points to potentially conserved, patterned responses to animals navigating lives within social hierarchies. Self-imposed food restriction in subordinate fish and hyperphagic responses in socially subordinated bird and primate individuals may represent evolved adaptations to the stress of social subordination. As such, hyperphagic and hypophagic responses to social subordination in these species may model the natural history, neurobiology, and behavioral ecology of human dieting and bingeing more accurately than some current animal models.Phylogenetically widespread similarities in eating patterns under the stress of social subordination point to potentially shared biological benefits of these behaviors across species and the role of evolutionary trade-offs, adaptations, and other processes in shaping them. The application of a broadly comparative lens to disordered eating behaviors in other species exposes important similarities and differences between neurophysiology of eating across species. In doing so, it highlights the value of phylogenetic analyses and macroevolution as tools for identifying novel, naturally occurring models for understanding disordered human eating. Moreover, this approach introduces the intriguing possibility that human cultural influences on disordered eating may have far more ancient origins than previously considered.

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Effects of nutritional manipulation on intranidal social behaviour in a small carpenter bee

Huisken

Rehan

2022

Animal Behaviour

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The influence of social environment on cooperation and conflict in an incipiently social bee, Ceratina calcarata

Cited by 4 publications

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Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes

Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes

Stress, Subordination, and Anomalies of Feeding Across the Tree of Life: Implications for Interpreting Human Eating Disorders

Effects of nutritional manipulation on intranidal social behaviour in a small carpenter bee

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