dc.contributor.author | Manfredini, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Wurm, Y | |
dc.contributor.author | Sumner, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Leadbeater, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-26T08:10:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-26T08:10:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Manfredini Fabio, Wurm Yannick, Sumner Seirian and Leadbeater Ellouise 2023Transcriptomic responses to location learning by honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the brains of dance-followersProc. R. Soc. B.2902023227420232274 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2274 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/94878 | |
dc.description.abstract | The waggle dances of honeybees are a strikingly complex form of animal communication that underlie the collective foraging behaviour of colonies. The mechanisms by which bees assess the locations of forage sites that they have visited for representation on the dancefloor are now well-understood, but few studies have considered the remarkable backward translation of such information into flight vectors by dance-followers. Here, we explore whether the gene expression patterns that are induced through individual learning about foraging locations are mirrored when bees learn about those same locations from their nest-mates. We first confirmed that the mushroom bodies of honeybee dancers show a specific transcriptomic response to learning about distance, and then showed that approximately 5% of those genes were also differentially expressed by bees that follow dances for the same foraging sites, but had never visited them. A subset of these genes were also differentially expressed when we manipulated distance perception through an optic flow paradigm, and responses to learning about target direction were also in part mirrored in the brains of dance followers. Our findings show a molecular footprint of the transfer of learnt information from one animal to another through this extraordinary communication system, highlighting the dynamic role of the genome in mediating even very short-term behavioural changes. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 20232274 - ? | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | The Royal Society | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proc Biol Sci | |
dc.rights | Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.subject | direction | en_US |
dc.subject | distance | en_US |
dc.subject | gene expression | en_US |
dc.subject | neurogenomics | en_US |
dc.subject | social learning | en_US |
dc.subject | waggle dance | en_US |
dc.subject | Bees | en_US |
dc.subject | Animals | en_US |
dc.subject | Animal Communication | en_US |
dc.subject | Brain | en_US |
dc.subject | Learning | en_US |
dc.subject | Mushroom Bodies | en_US |
dc.subject | Gene Expression Profiling | en_US |
dc.title | Transcriptomic responses to location learning by honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the brains of dance-followers. | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2023 The Authors. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.2023.2274 | |
pubs.author-url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38113935 | en_US |
pubs.issue | 2013 | en_US |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Published | en_US |
pubs.volume | 290 | en_US |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en_US |