Influence of sugar experience during development on gustatory sensitivity of the honey bee

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dc.contributor.authorMustard J.A.
dc.contributor.authorAkyol E.
dc.contributor.authorRobles K.D.
dc.contributor.authorOzturk C.
dc.contributor.authorKaftanoglu O.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-01T13:38:39Z
dc.date.available2019-08-01T13:38:39Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentNiğde ÖHÜ
dc.description.abstractThe level of response to sugar plays a role in many aspects of honey bee behavior including age dependent polyethism and division of labor. Bees may tune their sensitivity to sugars so that they maximize collection of high quality nectar, but they must also be able to collect from less profitable sources when high quality food is scarce. However, our understanding of the mechanisms by which bees can change their responsiveness to different sugars remains incomplete. To investigate the plasticity of sensitivity to sugar, bees were raised on different sugars either in vitro or in colonies. Bees raised in the incubator on diets containing mostly either fructose or glucose showed significantly more responsiveness to the majority sugar. In contrast, bees raised in colonies that only foraged on fructose or glucose responded equally well to both sugars. These data suggest that developmental plasticity for responses to sugar is masked by the feeding of worker jelly to larvae and young bees. The production of worker jelly from secretions of the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands by nurse bees ensures that both glucose and fructose are experienced by young bees so that they respond to both sugars and will be able to exploit all future food sources. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank Ying Wang for assistance with sucrose response threshold assays, and Andres Garcia for help with the beekeeping at UTRGV. This work was supported, in part, by funds from University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to JAM.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.05.002
dc.identifier.endpage105
dc.identifier.issn0022-1910
dc.identifier.pmid31059690
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85065243539
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage100
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.05.002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11480/1462
dc.identifier.volume116
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000472704600012
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Insect Physiology
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectDevelopment
dc.subjectFructose
dc.subjectGlucose
dc.subjectGustation
dc.subjectProboscis extension response
dc.subjectTaste
dc.titleInfluence of sugar experience during development on gustatory sensitivity of the honey bee
dc.typeArticle

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