Flight and fight: a comparative view of the neurophysiology and genetics of honey bee defensive behavior.

摘要: Honey bee nest defense involves guard bees that specialize in olfaction-based nestmate recognition and alarm-pheromone-mediated recruitment of nestmates to sting. Stinging is influenced by visual, tactile olfactory stimuli. Both quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping behavioral studies point guarding behavior as a key factor colony stinging response. Results reciprocal F1 crosses show paternally inherited genes have greater influence on response than maternally genes. The most active alarm pheromone component, isoamyl acetate (IAA) causes increased respiration may induce stress analgesia bees. IAA primes worker for ‘fight or flight’, possibly through actions neuropeptides and/or biogenic amines. Studies aggression other species lead an expectation octopamine 5-HT might play role honey defensive Genome sequence QTL identified 128 candidate three regions known behavior. Comparative bioinformatics suggest possible roles involved neurogenesis central nervous system (CNS) activity, sensory tuning G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), such arrestin (AmArr4) the metabotropic GABAB receptor (GABA-B-R1).