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Mechanism of individual recognition by learning/memory/experience and plasticity of microbrain

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11168230
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Review Section Biological Sciences
Research InstitutionTamagawa University

Principal Investigator

SASAKI Masami  Faculty of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (40096061)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAKAMURA Jun  Research Institute, Associate Professor, 学術研究所, 助教授 (30256002)
ONO Masato  Faculty of Agriculture, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (70204253)
Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2001
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥6,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥6,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥5,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,000,000)
Keywordshoneybee / learning and memory / plasticity / mushroom body / juvenile hormone / Kenyon cells / bumble bee / circadian rhythm / 経験,脳容積と学習 / スズメバチ / オオスズメバチ / 連合学習 / 吻伸展反射
Research Abstract

Effects of aging, juvenile hormone and social stimuli on the development and plasticity of learning capability of the honeybees were analyzed.
・ The learning ability was acquired 5 to 9 days after emergence in workers, while it was accomplished 2 to 5 days after emergence in drone.
・ Volumes of the subcompartments of mushroom body were compared between the bees experienced the various stimuli in the hive and the bees deprived of these stimuli in the confined condition by using semithin sections. There were significant quantitative differences in the antennal lobe and some subcompartments of the mushroom body.
・ Juvenile hormone was found to have distinct promotive effect on the development of learning capability but the action was indirect.
・ Timing of birth of the Kenyon cells in adult development was compared between worker and queen castes by the immunohistochemical method using BrdU incorporation. It was distinctly earlier in the queen caste in honeybees.
・ Field studies were done in arctic Norway (latitude of 70N) to see the presence or absence of bumble bee foraging activities in the bright night of midnight sun, in relation to the phenomenon of continuous and restless activities found under the continuous light in the laboratory. Bees were foraging even in the midnight, and the threshold light intensity allowing the masking of circadian rhythmicity was lower than that in Japanese bumble bees.
The phenomenon was proved to be the adaptation to extraordinary long day climate.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All Other

All Publications (2 results)

  • [Publications] Naoko Ichikawa, Masami Sasaki: "Importance of social stimuli for the development of learning capability in honeybees"Applied Entomology and Zoology. 38. 203-209 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoko Ichikawa and Masami Sasaki: "Importance of social stimuli for the development of learning capability in honeybees"Applied Entomology and Zoology. 38(2). 203-209 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary

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