Honey bees as a model for understanding mechanisms of life history transitions
Honey bees as a model for understanding mechanisms of life history transitions
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.04.014
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发表时间：
2005-08-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Roberts, SP
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作者：
Elekonich, MM;Roberts, SP
当蜜蜂工人从蜂巢内的任务切换到觅食时，他们经历了从持续暴露于蜂巢的受控同质物理和感官环境到长时间的昼夜暴露于蜂巢外的异质环境的过渡。从蜂箱工作到觅食的转变为综合研究产生主要生活史转变所需的行为可塑性的生理和遗传机制提供了机会。虽然这种转变已经在许多动物中进行了研究，但目前还没有一个模型系统，可以在同一生物体的自然栖息地中研究这种转变的进化，发育，生理学，分子生物学，神经生物学和行为。有大量的文献涵盖其进化，行为和生理学（加上最近的蜜蜂基因组测序），蜜蜂是唯一适合于行为机制的综合研究。在这篇综述中，我们讨论了这种行为转变的生理和遗传机制，其中包括激素活性，代谢，飞行能力，昼夜节律，感觉知觉和处理，神经结构，学习能力，记忆和基因表达的大规模变化。(c)2005年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
As honey bee workers switch from in-hive tasks to foraging, they undergo transition from constant exposure to the controlled homogenous physical and sensory environment of the hive to prolonged diurnal exposures to a far more heterogeneous environment outside the hive. The switch from hive work to foraging offers an opportunity for the integrative study of the physiological and genetic mechanisms that produce the behavioral plasticity required for major life history transitions. Although such transitions have been studied in a number of animals, currently there is no model system where the evolution, development, physiology, molecular biology, neurobiology and behavior of such a transition can all be studied in the same organism in its natural habitat. With a large literature covering its evolution, behavior and physiology (plus the recent sequencing of the honey bee genome), the honey bee is uniquely suited to integrative studies of the mechanisms of behavior. In this review we discuss the physiological and genetic mechanisms of this behavioral transition, which include large scale changes in hormonal activity, metabolism, flight ability, circadian rhythms, sensory perception and processing, neural architecture, learning ability, memory and gene expression. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.