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Farina, W.M.; Grüater, C.; Díaz, P.C. "Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive" (2005) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 272(1575):1923-1928
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Abstract:

A honeybee hive serves as an information centre in which communication among bees allows the colony to exploit the most profitable resources in a continuously changing environment. The best-studied communication behaviour in this context is the waggle dance performed by returning foragers, which encodes information about the distance and direction to the food source. It has been suggested that another information cue, floral scents transferred within the hive, is also important for recruitment to food sources, as bee recruits are more strongly attracted to odours previously brought back by foragers in both honeybees and bumble-bees. These observations suggested that honeybees learn the odour from successful foragers before leaving the hive. However, this has never been shown directly and the mechanisms and properties of the learning process remain obscure. We tested the learning and memory of recruited bees in the laboratory using the proboscis extension response (PER) paradigm, and show that recruits indeed learn the nectar odours brought back by foragers by associative learning and retrieve this memory in the PER paradigm. The associative nature of this learning reveals that information was gained during mouth-to-mouth contacts among bees (trophallaxis). Results further suggest that the information is transferred to long-term memory. Associative learning of food odours in a social context may help recruits to find a particular food source faster. © 2005 The Royal Society.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive
Autor:Farina, W.M.; Grüater, C.; Díaz, P.C.
Filiación:Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
Division of Behavioural Ecology, University of Bern, Ethologische Station Hasli, Wohlenstrasse 50a, 3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland
Palabras clave:Apis mellifera; Information transfer; Proboscis extension response; Social learning; Trophallaxis; honeybee; learning; odor; social behavior; article; controlled study; foraging; foraging behavior; honeybee; information retrieval; memory consolidation; nonhuman; olfactory discrimination; priority journal; social learning; state dependent learning; Apis mellifera; Apoidea; Bombus (genus)
Año:2005
Volumen:272
Número:1575
Página de inicio:1923
Página de fin:1928
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3172
Título revista:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Título revista abreviado:Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci.
ISSN:09628452
CODEN:PRLBA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09628452_v272_n1575_p1923_Farina

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Farina, W.M., Grüater, C. & Díaz, P.C. (2005) . Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1575), 1923-1928.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3172
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Farina, W.M., Grüater, C., Díaz, P.C. "Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive" . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272, no. 1575 (2005) : 1923-1928.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3172
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Farina, W.M., Grüater, C., Díaz, P.C. "Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive" . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 272, no. 1575, 2005, pp. 1923-1928.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3172
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Farina, W.M., Grüater, C., Díaz, P.C. Social learning of floral odours inside the honeybee hive. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 2005;272(1575):1923-1928.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3172