IFIBYNE   05513
INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGIA, BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR Y NEUROCIENCIAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Communication in social bees ? multiple messages in single signals ?
Autor/es:
, FARINA WM
Lugar:
Mar del Plata
Reunión:
Congreso; I Congreso Argentino de Biología del Comportamiento; 2013
Institución organizadora:
COMPORTA
Resumen:
Multiple sensory modalities within a communication context lead to an increased responsiveness of the receptor influencing its learning capacity to establish associations. Highly social bees appear to be good models to tackle this issue in non-vertebrate animals. In the case of the honeybee Apis mellifera, its well-studied waggle dance, a conspicuous display performed by successful foraging bees inside the hive, comprises different informational components. Some of them can be redundant but can lead to an enhanced response, because the receivers (the dance followers) acquire more than a single type of information. The signal emitted during the dance can even provide multiple messages. Another example to approach this topic is the display of pulsed thoracic vibrations performed by Melipona quadrifasciata stingless bees when returning to the nest. These emissions are produced while unloading the collected nectar to nest-mates via mouth-to-mouth trophallaxis. M. quadrifasciata bees are able to integrate multimodal information ? vibratory-olfactory-gustatory ? while receiving food from donor-partners. The vibrations during trophallaxis affect the receiver?s behavior modulating its ability to establish the food-odor association. The goal of this presentation is to establish links between communication and learning issues in bees to understand how multimodal and multi-component signals influence their cognitive capacities.