Octopamine and dopamine mediate waggle dance following and information use in honeybees.

ABSTRACT: Honeybees can be directed to profitable food sources by following waggle dances performed by other bees. Followers can often choose between using this social information or relying on memories about food sources they have visited in the past, so-called private information. While the circumstances that favour the use of either social or private information have received considerable attention, still little is known about the neurophysiological basis of information use. We hypothesized that octopamine and dopamine, two biogenic amines with important functions in reward signalling and learning, affect dance use in honeybees. We orally administered octopamine and dopamine when bees collected food at artificial feeders and tested if this affected interest in dance information about a new food s

SUBMITTER: Linn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7657864 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature