Testing the blank slate hypothesis: why honey bee colonies accept young bees
Testing the blank slate hypothesis: why honey bee colonies accept young bees
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DOI：
10.1007/s00040-003-0698-9
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Bjostad, LB
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作者：
Breed, MD;Perry, S;Bjostad, LB
特殊的功能便于接纳新成员，如新生儿，否则封闭的动物社会。在真社会性昆虫中，如蜜蜂和纸蜂，年轻的成虫从其他群体成员或筑巢材料获得群体识别表型。老年人在获得期间必须免于驱逐。新出现的成年蜜蜂在获得殖民地识别表型之前，通过呈现空白状态、缺乏识别线索，在其殖民地中获得耐受性。这使得它们在蜜蜂群体中普遍被接受。这种策略类似于鸟类和哺乳动物中与幼年相关的容易识别的表型。
Special features facilitate the admission of new members, such as neonates, to otherwise closed animal societies. In eusocial insects, such as honeybees and paper wasps, young adults acquire a colony recognition phenotype from other colony members or nesting materials. Older adults must exempt them from expulsion during the acquisition period. Newly emerged adult honeybees gain tolerance in their colony before their acquisition of the colony recognition phenotype by presenting a blank slate, absent recognition cues. This makes them generically acceptable in honey bee colonies. This strategy is analogous to the easily recognizable phenotypes associated with juvenility in birds and mammals.