Honeybee colonies achieve fitness through dancing
Honeybee colonies achieve fitness through dancing
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DOI：
10.1038/nature01127
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发表时间：
2002-10-31
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64.8
通讯作者：
Visscher, PK
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作者：
Sherman, G;Visscher, PK
蜜蜂舞蹈语言是非灵长类动物象征性交流的典型例子(1，2)，在这种语言中，觅食者表演舞蹈，其中包含有关到食物来源的距离和方向的信息。舞蹈语言一直是争论的主题(3，4)，并对舞蹈中信息的获取(1，5，6)、解码(7，8)和评估(9)的机制进行了广泛的研究。舞蹈语言已经被假设，但没有显示，以增加群体食物收集(1，9，10)。在这里，我们表明，与定向舞蹈的蜂群相比，定向舞蹈的蜂群(缺乏方向信息)对糖浆喂食者的招募效率较低。对于在自然资源中觅食的蜂群来说，方向信息有时会增加收集的食物，但在其他时候没有什么不同。当食物来源很难找到、丰富度不同且短暂时，舞蹈中的食物位置信息想必是重要的。如蜜蜂(1)、大黄蜂(11)和一些无刺蜜蜂(12)中发生的那样，简单地基于觅食者的唤醒和花香的交流进行招募，在其他情况下也可以同样有效。澄清舞蹈语言的条件依赖回报为其在蜜蜂生态中的功能提供了新的见解。
The honeybee dance language, in which foragers perform dances containing information about the distance and direction to food sources, is the quintessential example of symbolic communication in non-primates(1,2). The dance language has been the subject of controversy(3,4), and of extensive research into the mechanisms of acquiring(1,5,6), decoding(7,8) and evaluating(9) the information in the dance. The dance language has been hypothesized, but not shown, to increase colony food collection(1,9,10). Here we show that colonies with disoriented dances (lacking direction information) recruit less effectively to syrup feeders than do colonies with oriented dances. For colonies foraging at natural sources, the direction information sometimes increases food collected, but at other times it makes no difference. The food-location information in the dance is presumably important when food sources are hard to find, variable in richness and ephemeral. Recruitment based simply on arousal of foragers and communication of floral odour, as occurs in honeybees(1), bumble bees(11) and some stingless bees(12), can be equally effective under other circumstances. Clarifying the condition-dependent payoffs of the dance language provides new insight into its function in honeybee ecology.