A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have fascinating navigational skills and learning capabilities in the field. To decipher the mechanisms underlying place learning in honeybees, we need paradigms to study place learning of individual honeybees under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, we present a nove...
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| author | Ricarda Scheiner Felix Frantzmann Felix Frantzmann Maria Jäger Oliver Mitesser Charlotte Helfrich-Förster Dennis Pauls Dennis Pauls |
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| description | Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have fascinating navigational skills and learning capabilities in the field. To decipher the mechanisms underlying place learning in honeybees, we need paradigms to study place learning of individual honeybees under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, we present a novel visual place learning arena for honeybees which relies on high temperatures as aversive stimuli. Honeybees learn to locate a safe spot in an unpleasantly warm arena, relying on a visual panorama. Bees can solve this task at a temperature of 46°C, while at temperatures above 48°C bees die quickly. This new paradigm, which is based on pioneering work on Drosophila, allows us now to investigate thermal-visual place learning of individual honeybees in the laboratory, for example after controlled genetic knockout or pharmacological intervention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7f107f0cb94d49118b9f98216f471f5b2022-12-22T00:07:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532020-04-011410.3389/fnbeh.2020.00056530456A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera)Ricarda Scheiner0Felix Frantzmann1Felix Frantzmann2Maria Jäger3Oliver Mitesser4Charlotte Helfrich-Förster5Dennis Pauls6Dennis Pauls7Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyDepartment of Animal Physiology, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, GermanyNeurobiology and Genetics, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyBehavioral Physiology and Sociobiology, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyField Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyNeurobiology and Genetics, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyDepartment of Animal Physiology, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, GermanyNeurobiology and Genetics, Theodor-Boveri-Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyHoneybees (Apis mellifera) have fascinating navigational skills and learning capabilities in the field. To decipher the mechanisms underlying place learning in honeybees, we need paradigms to study place learning of individual honeybees under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, we present a novel visual place learning arena for honeybees which relies on high temperatures as aversive stimuli. Honeybees learn to locate a safe spot in an unpleasantly warm arena, relying on a visual panorama. Bees can solve this task at a temperature of 46°C, while at temperatures above 48°C bees die quickly. This new paradigm, which is based on pioneering work on Drosophila, allows us now to investigate thermal-visual place learning of individual honeybees in the laboratory, for example after controlled genetic knockout or pharmacological intervention.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00056/fulllearningmemoryhoneybeetemperaturelandmark |
| spellingShingle | Ricarda Scheiner Felix Frantzmann Felix Frantzmann Maria Jäger Oliver Mitesser Charlotte Helfrich-Förster Dennis Pauls Dennis Pauls A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience learning memory honeybee temperature landmark |
| title | A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera) |
| title_full | A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera) |
| title_fullStr | A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera) |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera) |
| title_short | A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera) |
| title_sort | novel thermal visual place learning paradigm for honeybees apis mellifera |
| topic | learning memory honeybee temperature landmark |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00056/full |
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