Adaptations during Maturation in an Identified Honeybee Interneuron Responsive to Waggle Dance Vibration Signals.

ABSTRACT: Honeybees are social insects, and individual bees take on different social roles as they mature, performing a multitude of tasks that involve multi-modal sensory integration. Several activities vital for foraging, like flight and waggle dance communication, involve sensing air vibrations through their antennae. We investigated changes in the identified vibration-sensitive interneuron DL-Int-1 in the honeybee Apis mellifera during maturation by comparing properties of neurons from newly emerged adult and forager honeybees. Although comparison of morphological reconstructions of the neurons revealed no significant changes in gross dendritic features, consistent and region-dependent changes were found in dendritic density. Comparison of electrophysiological properties showed an increas

SUBMITTER: Kumaraswamy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731536 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep/Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature