Central projections of sensory systems involved in honey bee dance language communication
Central projections of sensory systems involved in honey bee dance language communication
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DOI：
10.1159/000102974
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Robinson, Gene E.
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作者：
Brockmann, Axel;Robinson, Gene E.
蜜蜂舞蹈语言是一种独特而复杂的动物交流形式，用于告知群体中的巢穴伴侣食物来源或新巢穴的具体位置。五种不同的感觉系统涉及到舞蹈语言交流所必需的信息的获取和交流。我们提出的结果从神经元示踪研究确定中心投射从四个的五个。复眼背缘区域的感觉神经元，参与获取基于太阳罗盘的信息，投射到髓质的背侧大部分。颈部毛发板的感觉神经元，需要在黑暗的蜂巢中将基于太阳罗盘的信息转换为基于重力的信息，投射到食道下神经节的背唇神经节。来自触角关节毛感器和约翰斯顿器官的感觉神经元分别投射到下脑背叶、食道下神经节和后脑原，它们感知由腹部摆动和翅膀振动产生的机械刺激的舞蹈方向和距离信息。我们没有发现与之前描述的雄蜂和蜂王以及其他不表现出舞蹈交流的昆虫物种相关的“舞蹈特定”投影。我们认为，舞蹈语言交流的进化可能是基于与路径整合、计算距离的能力和飞行过程中的方向信息相关的中枢神经通路的改变。版权所有(c) 2007 S. Karger AG，巴塞尔
Honey bee dance language is a unique and complex form of animal communication used to inform nest mates in the colony about the specific location of food sources or new nest sites. Five different sensory systems have been implicated in acquiring and communicating the information necessary for dance language communication. We present results from neuronal tracer studies identifying the central projections from four of the five. Sensory neurons of the dorsal rim area of the compound eyes, involved in acquiring sun-compass based information, project to the dorsal-most part of the medulla. Sensory neurons of the neck hair plates, required to transpose sun-compass based information to gravity-based information in the dark hive, project to the dorsal labial neuromere of the subesophageal ganglion. Sensory neurons from the antennal joint hair sensilla and the Johnston's organ, which perceive information on dance direction and distance from mechanostimuli generated by abdomen waggling and wing vibration, project to the deutocerebral dorsal lobe and the subesophageal ganglion, and the posterior protocerebrum, respectively. We found no `dance-specific' projections relative to those previously described for drone and queen honey bees and other insect species that do not exhibit dance communication. We suggest that the evolution of dance language communication was likely based on the modification of central neural pathways associated with path integration, the capability to calculate distance, and directional information during flight. Copyright (c) 2007 S. Karger AG, Basel