U.S.-Mexico: Evolution of Recruitment Communication in Bees

0503834/0503468卡梅伦/NYE这个美墨奖项将支持伊利诺伊大学香槟分校的西德尼·卡梅伦博士和加州大学圣地亚哥分校的詹姆斯·尼博士对墨西哥塔帕丘拉南区高等专科学校的雷米·范达姆博士进行的合作规划访问和研究。研究人员打算在美国的两个实验室和墨西哥的一个实验室之间开展一项国际合作，以检查两个不同的群居蜜蜂部落Meliponini(无刺蜜蜂)和Bombini(Bombus)在招募沟通中的声学和信息素信号。大黄蜂)。研究人员将带来互补的技能，以解决理解高度社会化的蜜蜂中发现的复杂招募系统的性质和进化，以及它们可能是如何从更简单的祖先系统进化而来的问题。国外同行Vandame带来了关于墨西哥无刺蜜蜂觅食生态的丰富知识，Nieh是无刺蜜蜂招募沟通方面的专家，卡梅隆是社会蜜蜂分子系统发育方面的领导者，也专门研究热带大黄蜂的行为。数据分析将在墨西哥和圣地亚哥的实验室之间进行，使用圣地亚哥超级计算机中心提供的30TB数据存储设施。研究人员将每人带一名研究生参与合作工作，他们在促进与科学研究人员和来自墨西哥和拉丁美洲国家的学生的交流和合作方面的经验将有助于该项目的更广泛影响。

0503834/0503468Cameron/NyeThis U.S.-Mexico award will support a collaborative planning visit and research by Dr. Sydney Cameron of the U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and Dr. James Nieh of the U. of California-San Diego to Dr. Remy Vandame of the El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Tapachula, Mexico. The researchers intend to develop an international collaboration between two laboratories in the U.S. and one in Mexico to examine acoustical and pheromonal signals in recruitment communication in two different tribes of eusocial bees, Meliponini (stingless bees) and Bombini (Bombus. bumblebees). The investigators will bring complementary skills to address the problem of understanding the nature and evolution of the complex recruitment systems found in highly social bees, and how they may have evolved from simpler ancestral systems. The foreign counterpart Vandame brings a wealth of knowledge about the foraging ecology of stingless bees in Mexico, Nieh is an expert on stingless bee recruitment communication, and Cameron is a leader in molecular phylogenetics of social bees, and also specializes in the behavior of tropical bumblebees. Analysis of data will be distributed between the labs in Mexico and San Diego, using the 30 Terabyte data storage facility provided by the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The researchers will each bring a graduate student to the collaborative effort and their experience in fostering communication and collaboration with scientific researchers and students from Mexico and Latin American countries will contribute to the broader impacts of the project.