A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Scheiner, Ricarda and Frantzmann, Felix and Jäger, Maria and Mitesser, Oliver and Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte and Pauls, Dennis (2020) A Novel Thermal-Visual Place Learning Paradigm for Honeybees (Apis mellifera). Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14. ISSN 1662-5153

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: STM Digital Press > Biological Science
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Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2023 07:02
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2024 07:36
URI: http://publications.articalerewriter.com/id/eprint/30

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