Sucrose Responsiveness, Learning Success, and Task Specialization in Ants

Autor/inn/en	Perez, Margot; Rolland, Uther; Giurfa,, Martin; d'Ettorre, Patrizia
Titel	Sucrose Responsiveness, Learning Success, and Task Specialization in Ants
Quelle	In: Learning & Memory, 20 (2013) 8, S. 417-420 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0502
DOI	10.1101/lm.031427.113
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Entomology; Responses; Olfactory Perception; Behavior; Specialization; Learning; Conditioning; Individual Differences; Food + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Entomologie; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Lernen; Individueller Unterschied; Lebensmittel
Abstract	Social insects possess remarkable learning capabilities, which are crucial for their ecological success. They also exhibit interindividual differences in responsiveness to environmental stimuli, which underlie task specialization and division of labor. Here we investigated for the first time the relationships between sucrose responsiveness, behavioral specialization, and appetitive olfactory learning in ants, including reproductive castes. We show that castes of the ant "Camponotus aethiops" differ in their responsiveness to sucrose and in their learning success in olfactory conditioning experiments in which sucrose is used as reward. Olfactory learning was better in foragers than in nurses, in agreement with their higher sucrose responsiveness. Interindividual variation in stimulus responsiveness and in learning may be, therefore, a crucial factor for division of labor in social insects (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10