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

美国-墨西哥：蜜蜂招募沟通的演变

• 批准号: 0503834
• 负责人: Sydney Cameron
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0503834&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Mexico; Evolution; Recruitment; Communication

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.

0503834/0503468卡梅隆/奈这美国-墨西哥奖将支持一个合作规划访问和研究由悉尼博士卡梅隆的美国。伊利诺伊-厄巴纳-尚潘大学的詹姆斯·聂博士和美国医学会的詹姆斯·聂博士。加利福尼亚圣地亚哥的雷米·范德梅博士，来自墨西哥塔帕丘拉的南方边疆学院。 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国际合作，以研究两个不同的真社会蜜蜂部落Meliponini（无刺蜜蜂）和Bombini（Bombus）的招募通信中的声音和信息素信号。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问题，以及它们如何从简单的祖先系统进化而来。 外国同行Vandame带来了关于墨西哥无刺蜂觅食生态学的丰富知识，Nieh是无刺蜂招募传播专家，卡梅隆是社会蜜蜂分子遗传学的领导者，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分发，使用圣地亚哥超级计算机中心提供的30 TB数据存储设施。研究人员将各自带来一名研究生参与合作努力，他们在促进与墨西哥和拉丁美洲国家的科学研究人员和学生的交流与合作方面的经验将有助于该项目产生更广泛的影响。