Behavioral development in the honey bee: toward the study of learning under natural conditions.

Fahrbach, Susan E.; Robinson, Gene E.

doi:10.1101/lm.2.5.199

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“…The developmental process cannot fine-tune the system by phylogenetic information alone and, hence, provides the substrate for adjustments by experience. Experience-dependent developmental plasticity in the brain has long been studied in higher vertebrates (Wiesel and Hubel 1963;Bennett et al 1964;Floeter and Greenough 1979;Tieman and Hirsch 1982), later also in insects (Technau 1984;Bailing et al 1987;Kral and Meinertzhagen 1989;Fahrbach and Robinson 1995;Heisenberg et al 1995;Gronenberg et al 1996) and is considered to be a structural correlate of long-term memory.…”

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“…The mushroom bodies in particular have received considerable attention because of their role in olfactory learning and memory (Heisenberg et al 1985;deBelle and Heisenberg 1994), and structural plasticity (Technau 1984;Balling et al 1987;Withers et al 1993;Durst et al 1994;Fahrbach and Robinson 1995;Heisenberg et al 1995;Gronenberg et al 1996). For example, in bees significant volume changes in the calyces are associated with behavioral development and/or foraging experience of the workers (Withers et al 1993(Withers et al , 1995Fahrbach and Robinson 1995). Furthermore, visual stimulation at the time of the first reconnaissance flight may lead to an increase in the collar region, a subcomponent of the calyx that receives mainly visual input (Durst et al 1994;Withers et al 1995).…”

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Vision affects mushroom bodies and central complex in Drosophila melanogaster.

Barth¹,

Heisenberg²

1997

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The brain of Drosophila is structurally altered by sensory stimuli that the flies receive during their adult life. Size and fiber number of the mushroom bodies, central complex, and optic lobes are influenced by social, spatial, or olfactory cues. Recently, the optic lobes have been shown to depend on the light regime that flies experience. Structural plasticity in the brain is thought to be a correlate of functional adaptations and long-term memory. We therefore extend our investigation of volume changes to the calyces of the mushroom bodies and the central complex. We show that rearing flies in constant light for 4 days increases the volume of both structures by up to 15% compared to rearing them in total darkness. Much of this difference develops during the first day. The effect of light is not hormonally mediated, as monocularly deprived flies develop a smaller ipsilateral calyx. Mutant analysis suggests that light generates its effects through known visual pathways. In contrast to the optic lobes, in the calyx and central complex structural changes can be linked to cAMP signaling, as in the mutants dunce z and amnesiac 1 no volume differences are observed. Surprisingly, the mutant rutabaga ~ shows a prominent light-dependent volume increase in the calyx and central complex, dissociating structural from behavioral plasticity. In complete darkness wild-type flies grow larger calyces under crowded conditions in their normal culture vials than if kept in small groups on fresh food. This stimulating effect of crowding is not 1Corresponding author. observed in any of the cAMP mutants, including rutabaga 1.

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Vision affects mushroom bodies and central complex in Drosophila melanogaster.

Barth¹,

Heisenberg²

1997

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“…Worker honey bees tend the queen, rear brood, and maintain the hive for the first few weeks of adult life, and then forage outside of the hive for the final weeks of life (Winston, 1987). The transition from spending almost all of the time working in the hive to foraging for nectar and pollen outside the hive is a major change in lifestyle for the bee, and is preceded by changes in endocrine and exocrine gland secretions (Fahrbach and Robinson, 1995;Robinson and Vargo, 1997), behavioral diurnal activity rhythms ), brain structure (Fahrbach and Robinson, 1996;Fahrbach et al, 1998), and brain gene expression .…”

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Division of labor in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): the role of tyramine β-hydroxylase

Lehman

Schulz

Barron

et al. 2006

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARY The biogenic amine octopamine (OA) is involved in the regulation of honey bee behavioral development; brain levels are higher in foragers than bees working in the hive, especially in the antennal lobes, and treatment causes precocious foraging. We measured brain mRNA and protein activity of tyramineβ-hydroxylase (T βh), an enzyme vital for OA synthesis, in order to begin testing the hypothesis that this enzyme is responsible for the rising levels of OA during honey bee behavioral development. Brain OA levels were greater in forager bees than in bees engaged in brood care, as in previous studies, but T βh activity was not correlated with bee behavior. Tβh mRNA levels, however, did closely track OA levels during behavioral development, and T βh mRNA was localized to previously identified octopaminergic neurons in the bee brain. Our results show that the transcription of this neurotransmitter synthetic enzyme is associated with regulation of social behavior in honey bees, but other factors may be involved.

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“…The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is an important model for studies of neural and behavioral plasticity, particularly with respect to social behavior, learning, and memory (Fahrbach and Robinson 1995;Robinson 1998;Menzel 2001;Maleszka et al 2000). The neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry of the honey bee brain have been studied extensively, and several functions have been mapped to particular brain regions (e.g., Menzel 2001;Fahrbach and Robinson 1995).…”

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“…The neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry of the honey bee brain have been studied extensively, and several functions have been mapped to particular brain regions (e.g., Menzel 2001;Fahrbach and Robinson 1995). Honey bees also have been used extensively to study the genetic underpinnings of behavior (Rothenbuhler 1967;Page and Robinson 1991).…”

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Annotated Expressed Sequence Tags and cDNA Microarrays for Studies of Brain and Behavior in the Honey Bee

Whitfield¹,

Band²,

Bonaldo³

et al. 2002

Genome Res.

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To accelerate the molecular analysis of behavior in the honey bee (Apis mellifera), we created expressed sequence tag (EST) and cDNA microarray resources for the bee brain. Over 20,000 cDNA clones were partially sequenced from a normalized (and subsequently subtracted) library generated from adult A. mellifera brains. These sequences were processed to identify 15,311 high-quality ESTs representing 8912 putative transcripts. Putative transcripts were functionally annotated (using the Gene Ontology classification system) based on matching gene sequences in Drosophila melanogaster. The brain ESTs represent a broad range of molecular functions and biological processes, with neurobiological classifications particularly well represented. Roughly half of Drosophila genes currently implicated in synaptic transmission and/or behavior are represented in the Apis EST set. Of Apis sequences with open reading frames of at least 450 bp, 24% are highly diverged with no matches to known protein sequences. Additionally, over 100 Apis transcript sequences conserved with other organisms appear to have been lost from the Drosophila genome. DNA microarrays were fabricated with over 7000 EST cDNA clones putatively representing different transcripts. Using probe derived from single bee brain mRNA, microarrays detected gene expression for 90% of Apis cDNAs two standard deviations greater than exogenous control cDNAs.

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Behavioral development in the honey bee: toward the study of learning under natural conditions.

Cited by 51 publications

References 125 publications

Vision affects mushroom bodies and central complex in Drosophila melanogaster.

Vision affects mushroom bodies and central complex in Drosophila melanogaster.

Division of labor in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): the role of tyramine β-hydroxylase

Annotated Expressed Sequence Tags and cDNA Microarrays for Studies of Brain and Behavior in the Honey Bee

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