Differential Neuroanatomical, Neurochemical, and Behavioral Impacts of Early-Age Isolation in a Eusocial Insect.

ABSTRACT: Social experience early in life appears to be necessary for the development of species-typical behavior. Although isolation during critical periods of maturation has been shown to impact behavior by altering gene expression and brain development in invertebrates and vertebrates, workers of some ant species appear resilient to social deprivation and other neurobiological challenges that occur during senescence or due to loss of sensory input. It is unclear if and to what degree neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and behavior will show deficiencies if social experience in the early adult life of worker ants is compromised. We reared newly-eclosed adult workers of Camponotus floridanus under conditions of social isolation for 2 to 53 days, quantified brain compartment volumes, recorded biog

SUBMITTER: Goolsby BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10326991 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature