Gutenberg Open Science: Use of waggle dance information in honey bees is linked to gene expression in the antennae, but not in the brain

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dc.contributor.author	Kennedy, Anissa	-
dc.contributor.author	Peng, Tianfei	-
dc.contributor.author	Glaser, Simone M.	-
dc.contributor.author	Linn, Melissa	-
dc.contributor.author	Foitzik, Susanne	-
dc.contributor.author	Grüter, Christoph	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-15T10:52:30Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-11-15T10:52:30Z	-
dc.date.issued	2021	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/8160	-
dc.description.abstract	Communication is essential for social animals, but deciding how to utilize information provided by conspecifics is a complex process that depends on environmental and intrinsic factors. Honey bees use a unique form of communication, the waggle dance, to inform nestmates about the location of food sources. However, as in many other animals, experienced individuals often ignore this social information and prefer to rely on prior experiences, i.e., private information. The neurosensory factors that drive the decision to use social information are not yet understood. Here we test whether the decision to use social dance information or private information is linked to gene expression differences in different parts of the nervous system. We trained bees to collect food from sugar water feeders and observed whether they utilize social or private information when exposed to dances for a new food source. We performed transcriptome analysis of four brain parts (11–16 bees per tissue type) critical for cognition: the subesophageal ganglion, the central brain, the mushroom bodies, and the antennal lobes but, unexpectedly, detected no differences between social or private information users. In contrast, we found 413 differentially expressed genes in the antennae, suggesting that variation in sensory perception mediates the decision to use social information. Social information users were characterized by the upregulation of biogenic amine genes, while private information users upregulated several genes coding for odour perception. These results highlight that decision-making in honey bees might also depend on peripheral processes of perception rather than higher-order brain centres of information integration.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	570 Biowissenschaften	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	570 Life sciences	en_GB
dc.title	Use of waggle dance information in honey bees is linked to gene expression in the antennae, but not in the brain	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8145	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 10 Biologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7970	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Molecular ecology	de
jgu.journal.volume	30	de
jgu.journal.issue	11	de
jgu.pages.start	2676	de
jgu.pages.end	2688	de
jgu.publisher.year	2021	-
jgu.publisher.name	Wiley-Blackwell	de
jgu.publisher.place	Oxford u.a.	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1365-294X	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	570	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1111/mec.15893	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
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