The auditory sense of the honey‐bee

McIndoo, N. E.

doi:10.1002/cne.900340202

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“…Workers have the lowest (and very invariant) number of scolopidia, followed by an only marginally higher number in a queen, but a clearly higher number in a male. This result corresponds with findings in honeybees (McIndoo, 1922). A. mellifera workers have, as in C. nodus , the lowest number of scolopidia with about 70 scolopidia (in C. nodus 40 scolopidia).…”

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“…A. mellifera workers have, as in C. nodus , the lowest number of scolopidia with about 70 scolopidia (in C. nodus 40 scolopidia). This is closely followed by honeybee queens with 72 (in C. nodus 42) and with some distance the drones (males) with 100 caps in the intersegmental membrane (in C. nodus 48 scolopidia) (McIndoo, 1922). Importantly, in the honeybee, both female castes and males are capable of flight.…”

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Johnston's organ and its central projections in Cataglyphis desert ants

Grob

Tritscher

Grübel

et al. 2020

J of Comparative Neurology

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The Johnston's organ (JO) in the insect antenna is a multisensory organ involved in several navigational tasks including wind-compass orientation, flight control, graviception, and, possibly, magnetoreception. Here we investigate the three dimensional anatomy of the JO and its neuronal projections into the brain of the desert ant Cataglyphis, a marvelous long-distance navigator. The JO of C. nodus workers consists of 40 scolopidia comprising three sensory neurons each. The numbers of scolopidia slightly vary between different sexes (female/male) and castes (worker/queen). Individual scolopidia attach to the intersegmental membrane between pedicel and flagellum of the antenna and line up in a ring-like organization. Three JO nerves project along the two antennal nerve branches into the brain. Anterograde double staining of the antennal afferents revealed that JO receptor neurons project to several distinct neuropils in the central brain. The T5 tract projects into the antennal mechanosensory and motor center (AMMC), while the T6 tract bypasses the AMMC via the saddle and forms collaterals terminating in the posterior slope (PS) (T6I), the ventral complex (T6II), and the ventrolateral protocerebrum (T6III). Double labeling of JO and ocellar afferents revealed that input from the JO and visual information from the ocelli converge in tight apposition in the PS. The general JO anatomy and its central projection patterns resemble situations in honeybees and Drosophila. The multisensory nature of the JO together with its projections to multisensory neuropils in the ant brain likely serves synchronization and calibration of different sensory modalities during the ontogeny of navigation in Cataglyphis.

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Johnston's organ and its central projections in Cataglyphis desert ants

Grob

Tritscher

Grübel

et al. 2020

J of Comparative Neurology

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“…The general structure of the honey bee JO has been described [22]. We analyzed the ultrastructure of the honey bee JO by transmission electron microscopy (E. Sivan-Loukianova, S. Tsujiuchi, T. Kadowaki, and D. F. Eberl; in preparation; Fig.…”

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Dynamic Range Compression in the Honey Bee Auditory System toward Waggle Dance Sounds

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Honey bee foragers use a “waggle dance” to inform nestmates about direction and distance to locations of attractive food. The sound and air flows generated by dancer's wing and abdominal vibrations have been implicated as important cues, but the decoding mechanisms for these dance messages are poorly understood. To understand the neural mechanisms of honey bee dance communication, we analyzed the anatomy of antenna and Johnston's organ (JO) in the pedicel of the antenna, as well as the mechanical and neural response characteristics of antenna and JO to acoustic stimuli, respectively. The honey bee JO consists of about 300–320 scolopidia connected with about 48 cuticular “knobs” around the circumference of the pedicel. Each scolopidium contains bipolar sensory neurons with both type I and II cilia. The mechanical sensitivities of the antennal flagellum are specifically high in response to low but not high intensity stimuli of 265–350 Hz frequencies. The structural characteristics of antenna but not JO neurons seem to be responsible for the non-linear responses of the flagellum in contrast to mosquito and fruit fly. The honey bee flagellum is a sensitive movement detector responding to 20 nm tip displacement, which is comparable to female mosquito. Furthermore, the JO neurons have the ability to preserve both frequency and temporal information of acoustic stimuli including the “waggle dance” sound. Intriguingly, the response of JO neurons was found to be age-dependent, demonstrating that the dance communication is only possible between aged foragers. These results suggest that the matured honey bee antennae and JO neurons are best tuned to detect 250–300 Hz sound generated during “waggle dance” from the distance in a dark hive, and that sufficient responses of the JO neurons are obtained by reducing the mechanical sensitivity of the flagellum in a near-field of dancer. This nonlinear effect brings about dynamic range compression in the honey bee auditory system.

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“…The organ almost occludes the channel; however restricted passage of haemolymph around the periphery of the organ is still possible. More detailed descriptions of the anatomy of the SGO are presented by SchoÈ n (1911), McIndoo (1922) and Kilpinen and Storm (1997).…”

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Modelling the subgenual organ of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Storm

Kilpinen

1998

Biological Cybernetics

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In a recent study on the honeybee (Apis mellifera), the subgenual organ was observed moving inside the leg during sinusoidal vibrations of the leg (Kilpinen and Storm 1997). The subgenual organ of the honeybee is suspended in a haemolymph channel in the tibia of each leg. When the leg accelerates, the inertia causes the haemolymph and the subgenual organ to lag behind the movement of the rest of the leg. To elucidate the biophysics of the subgenual organ system of the honeybee, two mathematical models to simulate the experimentally observed mechanical response are considered. The models are a classical mass-spring model and a newly developed tube model consisting of an open-ended,¯uid-®lled tube occluded by an elastic structure midway. Both models suggest that the subgenual organ included in the haemolymph channel resembles that of an overdamped system. In resembling the biophysics of the subgenual organ system in the honeybee, we consider the tube model to be the better of the two because it simulates a mechanical response which complies best with the experimental data, and the physical parameters in the model can be related to the constituent parts of the subgenual organ included in the haemolymph channel.

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The auditory sense of the honey‐bee

Cited by 32 publications

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Johnston's organ and its central projections in Cataglyphis desert ants

Johnston's organ and its central projections in Cataglyphis desert ants

Dynamic Range Compression in the Honey Bee Auditory System toward Waggle Dance Sounds

Modelling the subgenual organ of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

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