Behavioral Reversion and Dark-Light Choice Behavior in Workers of the Red Wood Ant Formica polyctena.
Behavioral Reversion and Dark-Light Choice Behavior in Workers of the Red Wood Ant Formica polyctena.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10905-015-9496-2
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1
通讯作者：
Godzinska, Ewa Joanna
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作者：
Symonowicz, Beata;Kieruzel, Maria;Szczuka, Anna;Korczynska, Julita;Wnuk, Andrzej;Mazurkiewicz, Pawel Jaroslaw;Chilinski, Michal;Godzinska, Ewa Joanna
社会性昆虫工蚁通常从巢内任务开始成年生活，然后转向巢外活动，但这个过程可能会逆转：觅食者可能会再次切换到巢内育雏护理。觅食者向护士回归的转变被称为行为回归。众所周知，蚂蚁觅食者避开照明区域的强度不如工蚁，但迄今为止从未研究过恢复护士的照明反应。我们比较了红木蚁蚁三类工蚁的暗光选择行为：护士、觅食者和回归护士。属于同一类的十只蚂蚁在由两个相互连接的试管组成的“双层巢穴”中进行了测试，其中一个保持在黑暗中，另一个暴露在光线下。以 30 分钟的间隔在 10 个采样点记录每个巢穴照明区域中存在的蚂蚁数量 (ni)。护士的 ni 值低于觅食者和回归护士，并且在所有三组中均随时间而下降。在暗光选择行为的动态方面，护士与觅食者不同，但回归的护士在这方面与护士或觅食者没有什么不同。回归的护士和觅食者在回避照明区域的总体水平以及暗光选择行为的动态方面没有显着差异。这意味着行为逆转并不伴随着F. polyctena工蚁的光照反应恢复到护士的状态特征。
Social insect workers usually start adult life from intranidal tasks and then switch to extranidal activities, but this process may be reversed: foragers may switch again to intranidal brood care. The transition forager – reverted nurse is known as the behavioral reversion. Ant foragers are known to avoid illuminated zones less strongly than intranidal workers, but illumination responses of reverted nurses were so far never investigated. We compared dark–light choice behavior of three classes of workers of the red wood ant Formica polyctena: nurses, foragers and reverted nurses. Sets of ten ants belonging to the same class were tested in “double nests” made of two interconnected test tubes, one kept in darkness and the other exposed to light. The number of ants present in the illuminated zone of each nest (ni) was recorded on 10 sample points at 30 min intervals. The values of ni were lower in nurses than in foragers and reverted nurses and decreased as a function of time in all three groups. Nurses differed from foragers with respect to the dynamics of dark–light choice behavior, but reverted nurses did not differ in that respect either from nurses, or from foragers. Reverted nurses and foragers did not differ significantly from each other with respect to the overall level of avoidance of illuminated zone, nor with respect to the dynamics of dark–light choice behavior. This implies that behavioral reversion is not accompanied by the return of illumination responses of workers of F. polyctena to the state characteristic for nurses.
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DOI：
10.1155/1983/57061
发表时间：
1983-01-01
期刊：
Psyche (Cambridge)
影响因子：
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作者：
Calabi, P.;Traniello, J.F.A.;Werner, M.H.
通讯作者：
Werner, M.H.
影响因子：
1.3
作者：
FOURCASSIE, V;BEUGNON, G
通讯作者：
BEUGNON, G
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Kuszewska, Karolina;Woyciechowski, Michal
通讯作者：
Woyciechowski, Michal
影响因子：
64.8
作者：
Bloch, G;Robinson, GE
通讯作者：
Robinson, GE
DOI：
10.1002/neu.20235
发表时间：
2006-05-01
期刊：
JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY
影响因子：
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作者：
Kuehn-Buehlmann, Simone;Wehner, Ruedigner
通讯作者：
Wehner, Ruedigner