Development and ultrastructural changes of sarcosomes during honey bee flight muscle development

Herold, Richard

doi:10.1016/0012-1606(65)90031-x

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“…HEROLD (1965) investigated sarcosomal development in the honey-bee flight muscle; N~~ESCH (1965) connected structural development of flight muscles of Antheraea with the functional appearance of actomyosine. Electron microscopic studies of flight muscle development in Calliphora were made by AUBER (1969) and in Lucilia by PERISTIANIS and GREGORY (1971).…”

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Development of catabolic pathways in insect flight muscles. A comparative study

Beenakkers

Broek

Ronde

1975

Journal of Insect Physiology

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Abstract-Activities of enzymes representative of glycolytic and p-oxidative pathways and citric acid and glycerophosphate cycles were measured in the developing flight muscles of three species: Calliphora erythrocephala, Locusta migrutoria, and Philosamia Cynthia. The activities were measured in vitro under optimal conditions. The enzyme pattern of young flight muscles is quite different from the adult pattern. In the second half of the developmental period final differentiation towards the adult metabolic pattern takes place, in Calliphora leading to exclusively carbohydrate-oxidizing capacities, in Locusta to properties enabling both aerobic glycolytic and P-oxidative processes, whereas Philosamiu becomes oriented to fatty acid oxidation. This differentiation starts after a temporary rise of lactate dehydrogenase activity, a phenomenon that seems to be connected with invagination of tracheoblasts into the muscle fibres. This tracheolization might be necessary for differentiation towards the species specific metabolic properties of the adult flight muscle.Theoretical aspects of the enzyme activities, as they were measured in the in vitro assays, are discussed and related to the physiological qualities of the flight muscles of the three species investigated.

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Development of catabolic pathways in insect flight muscles. A comparative study

Beenakkers

Broek

Ronde

1975

Journal of Insect Physiology

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“…It is associated with major physiological changes in flight muscle (Correa-Fernandez and Cruz-Landim, 2010;Herold, 1965), a significant decrease in body mass (Harrison, 1986), glands (Winston, 1987) and fat stores (Toth and Robinson, 2005), and changes in metabolic rate (Harrison, 1986) and circadian rhythm . It is preceded by a number of orientation flights in which a bee flies through the area around the hive in a systematic way, apparently learning a range of celestial and terrestrial navigational cues by which foragers can locate food sources and return home (Becker, 1958;Capaldi et al, 2000;Dyer and Gould, 1983;Srinivasan, 2011;Towne, 2008;Towne and Moscrip, 2008).…”

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Effects of the juvenile hormone analogue methoprene on rate of behavioural development, foraging performance and navigation in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Chang

Barron

Chen

2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Worker honey bees change roles as they age as part of a hormonally regulated process of behavioural development that ends with a specialised foraging phase. The rate of behavioural development is highly plastic and responsive to changes in colony condition such that forager losses, disease or nutritional stresses accelerate behavioural development and cause an early onset of foraging in workers. It is not clear to what degree the behavioural development of workers can be accelerated without there being a cost in terms of reduced foraging performance. Here, we compared the foraging performance of bees induced to accelerate their behavioural development by treatment with the juvenile hormone analogue methoprene with that of controls that developed at a normal rate. Methoprene treatment accelerated the onset of both flight and foraging behaviour in workers, but it also reduced foraging span, the total time spent foraging and the number of completed foraging trips. Methoprene treatment did not alter performance in a short-range navigation task, however. These data indicate a limitation to the physiological plasticity of bees, and a trade off between forager performance and the speed at which bees begin foraging. Chronic stressors will be expected to reduce the mean age of the foraging force, and therefore also reduce the efficiency of the foraging force. This interaction may explain why honey bee colonies react to sustained stressors with non-linear population decline.

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“…In both bees and ants, physiological and behavioural developmental processes precede the onset of foraging to prepare the worker for that role. In honey bees, there is extensive adaptation of worker physiology and metabolism, with changes in flight muscle (CorreaFernandez and Cruz-Landim, 2010;Herold, 1965), a reduction in brood-feeding glands (Winston, 1987) and fat stores (Toth and Robinson, 2005), and an overall increase in metabolic rate (Harrison, 1986). There are also behavioural changes, with workers establishing a clear diurnal rhythm to activity (Bloch et al, 2001), and engaging in orientation flights (Becker, 1958;Capaldi et al, 2000) prior to foraging.…”

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Accelerated behavioural development changes fine-scale search behaviour and spatial memory in honey bees (Apis melliferaL)

Ushitani

Perry

Chen

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Normally, worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) begin foraging when more than 2 weeks old as adults, but if individual bees or the colony is stressed, bees often begin foraging precociously. Here, we examined whether bees that accelerated their behavioural development to begin foraging precociously differed from normal-aged foragers in cognitive performance. We used a social manipulation to generate precocious foragers from small experimental colonies and tested their performance in a free-flight visual reversal learning task, and a test of spatial memory. To assess spatial memory, bees were trained to learn the location of a small sucrose feeder within an array of three landmarks. In tests, the feeder and one landmark were removed and the search behaviour of the bees was recorded. Performance of precocious and normal-aged foragers did not differ in a visual reversal learning task, but the two groups showed a clear difference in spatial memory. Flight behaviour suggested normal-aged foragers were better able to infer the position of the removed landmark and feeder relative to the remaining landmarks than precocious foragers. Previous studies have documented the cognitive decline of old foragers, but this is the first suggestion of a cognitive deficit in young foragers. These data imply that worker honey bees continue their cognitive development during the adult stage. These findings may also help to explain why precocious foragers perform quite poorly as foragers and have a higher than normal loss rate.

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Development and ultrastructural changes of sarcosomes during honey bee flight muscle development

Cited by 48 publications

References 13 publications

Development of catabolic pathways in insect flight muscles. A comparative study

Development of catabolic pathways in insect flight muscles. A comparative study

Effects of the juvenile hormone analogue methoprene on rate of behavioural development, foraging performance and navigation in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

Accelerated behavioural development changes fine-scale search behaviour and spatial memory in honey bees (Apis melliferaL)

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