Local behavioral rules sustain the cell allocation pattern in the combs of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)
Local behavioral rules sustain the cell allocation pattern in the combs of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)
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10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.07.010
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发表时间：
2013-11-07
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Seeley, Thomas D.
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作者：
Montovan, Kathryn J.;Karst, Nathaniel;Seeley, Thomas D.
在蜜蜂的蜂蜡蜂巢中，育雏、花粉和蜂蜜的细胞具有一致的空间模式，这种模式在蜂群的整个生命周期中都是持续的。这种空间模式被认为是从简单的行为规则中产生的，这些规则规定了蜂王如何移动，觅食者在哪里存放存款蜂蜜/花粉以及蜂蜜/花粉如何从细胞中消耗。先前的工作已经表明，一组这样的规则可以解释的分配模式的形成从一个空的comb. We表明，这些规则不能维持的模式，一旦育雏开始腾出他们的细胞，我们提出了新的，生物现实的规则，更好地维持所观察到的分配模式。我们通过在许多妊娠期和广泛的参数值范围内执行数百次模拟运行来分析三个模型。我们开发了新的模式评估指标，并采用它们在分析模式保持在每个模拟运行。应用于我们的模拟结果，这些指标表明，根据本地信息改变蜂蜜/花粉消费的可接受模型可以随着时间的推移稳定细胞分配模式。我们还表明，添加全球信息，通过偏置女王的运动对中心的梳子，扩大了参数制度，模式保持发生。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
In the beeswax combs of honey bees, the cells of brood, pollen, and honey have a consistent spatial pattern that is sustained throughout the life of a colony. This spatial pattern is believed to emerge from simple behavioral rules that specify how the queen moves, where foragers deposit honey/pollen and how honey/pollen is consumed from cells. Prior work has shown that a set of such rules can explain the formation of the allocation pattern starting from an empty comb. We show that these rules cannot maintain the pattern once the brood start to vacate their cells, and we propose new, biologically realistic rules that better sustain the observed allocation pattern. We analyze the three resulting models by performing hundreds of simulation runs over many gestational periods and a wide range of parameter values. We develop new metrics for pattern assessment and employ them in analyzing pattern retention over each simulation run. Applied to our simulation results, these metrics show alteration of an accepted model for honey/pollen consumption based on local information can stabilize the cell allocation pattern over time. We also show that adding global information, by biasing the queen's movements towards the center of the comb, expands the parameter regime over which pattern retention occurs. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.