Ants use partner specific odors to learn to recognize a mutualistic partner.
Ants use partner specific odors to learn to recognize a mutualistic partner.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0086054
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Yamaoka R
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文献类型：
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作者：
Hojo MK;Yamamoto A;Akino T;Tsuji K;Yamaoka R
通过种间交流进行调节对于维持许多互惠关系非常重要。然而，对于许多互惠关系，人们对伴侣交流进化的机制知之甚少。这里我们展示了，在蚂蚁-lycaenid蝴蝶的互惠关系中，伴随蚂蚁选择性地学习识别和与伴侣合作。点原蚁的工蚁学会了将互惠共生的Narathura japonica毛虫的表皮碳氢化合物与食物奖励联系起来，因此，它们更有可能照顾毛虫。然而，这些工蚁并没有学会将一种与蚁无关的Lycaena phlaeas的幼虫表皮上的碳氢化合物与人工食物奖励联系起来。化学分析表明，与非蚁伴生毛虫相比，共生毛虫的表皮烃谱更为复杂。我们的研究结果表明，基于伴侣特异性化学信号和工蚁认知能力的伴侣识别是工蚁与蚂蚁共生进化和维持的重要机制。
Regulation via interspecific communication is an important for the maintenance of many mutualisms. However, mechanisms underlying the evolution of partner communication are poorly understood for many mutualisms. Here we show, in an ant-lycaenid butterfly mutualism, that attendant ants selectively learn to recognize and interact cooperatively with a partner. Workers of the ant Pristomyrmex punctatus learn to associate cuticular hydrocarbons of mutualistic Narathura japonica caterpillars with food rewards and, as a result, are more likely to tend the caterpillars. However, the workers do not learn to associate the cuticular hydrocarbons of caterpillars of a non-ant-associated lycaenid, Lycaena phlaeas, with artificial food rewards. Chemical analysis revealed cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of the mutualistic caterpillars were complex compared with those of non-ant-associated caterpillars. Our results suggest that partner-recognition based on partner-specific chemical signals and cognitive abilities of workers are important mechanisms underlying the evolution and maintenance of mutualism with ants.
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2000.1221
发表时间：
2000-09-22
影响因子：
4.7
作者：
Agrawal, AA;Fordyce, JA
通讯作者：
Fordyce, JA
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
2.7
作者：
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通讯作者：
HOLLDOBLER, B
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Lang, Corsin;Menzel, Florian
通讯作者：
Menzel, Florian
影响因子：
1.4
作者：
BHATKAR A;WHITCOMB W H
通讯作者：
WHITCOMB W H