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SEMIOCHEMICALS INDUCING SOCIAL BEHAVIORS IN HONEYBEES

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16510173
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Living organism molecular science
Research InstitutionFoundation for Advancement of International Science

Principal Investigator

SASAGAWA Hiromi  Foundation for Advancement of International Science, 研究開発部, RESEARCHER (80211936)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MATSUYAMA Shigeru  UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, LECTURER (30239131)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
KeywordsHoneybee / Apis cerana japonica RAD. / Apis mellifera L. / Varra mites / allo-grooming behaviour / Social insect / Social behavior / Chemical ecology / 寄生ダニ / 異物認識 / グルーミング行動 / ミホンミツバチ
Research Abstract

"SEMIOCHEMICALS INDUCING SOCIAL BEHAVIORS IN HONEYBEES"
Social behaviors in honey bees can serve as models for investigating recognition and communications among intra- and interspecies as well as those towards environmental conditions. In response to the stimuli, individuals recognize the environmental conditions surrounding the colony. Semiochemicals play crucial roles in recognition and pheromones do in communication. Individual recognition and communications among colony members would lead to wide variety of social behaviors. Therefore understanding the basic mechanisms of social behaviors attracts attentions of researchers in the field of micro machines and brain sciences. How the flexibility of the honey bee colony arises, is one of the most attractive issues in our research. In this paper, aquisition and development in behavioral repertory between these two honey bees were investigated in connection with differences in recognition and responses to semiochemicals. In Japan, there are two Apis species, domestic honey bee (Apis cerana japonica Rad.; Acj) and imported honey bee, Apis mellifera L.(Am). There are behavioral differences between the two species. For example, Am collect Propolis but Acj does not. Acj performs hygienic allo-grooming behavior against Varroa mites but Am seldom does it. When Acj workers with different ages (0, 7, 14, 17days after eclosion) were exposed to Varroa mite extract, day 0 workers did not respond (0%), however 7days and older workers responded (100%). It was observed that the older workers responded more quickly and persistently upon exposure to the extract. Therefore, all-grooming behavior in Acj develops in accordance with the age after eclosion. Development of allo-grooming behaviour in Acj may be under hormonal control as is age-polyethism.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2008 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article (6 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] ミツバチの社会性行動と個体間コミュニケーションを司る社会性行動解発因子2008

    • Author(s)
      笹川 浩美, 所 雅彦, 芝塚 紗和子, 門脇 辰彦
    • Journal Title

      第52回日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨 52

      Pages: 137-137

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] ミツバチ類の社会性行動を司る化学コミュニケーションと社会性行動解発因子2007

    • Author(s)
      笹川 浩美, 門脇 辰彦, 松山 茂
    • Journal Title

      第51回日本応用動物昆虫学会大会講演要旨 51

      Pages: 183-183

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Semiochemicals Inducing Social Behaviors in Honey bees2007

    • Author(s)
      Hiromi Sasagawa, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki, Shigeru Matauyama
    • Journal Title

      Asia-Pacific Conference on Chemical Ecology from Biomolecules to Ecosystems an Interactive Chemical Message for our Future 4

      Pages: 20-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Semiochemicals Inducing Social Behaviors in Honey bees.2007

    • Author(s)
      Hiromi Sasagawa, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki, Shigeru Matsuyama
    • Journal Title

      Asia-Pacific Conference on Chemical Ecology from Biomolecules to Ecosystems an Interactive, Chemical Massage for our Future.

      Pages: 20-20

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] A honey bee Dscam family member, AbsCAM, is a brain-specific cell adhesion molecule with the neurite outgrowth activity which influences neuronal wiring during development.2006

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Funada, Hiroaki Hara, Hiromi Sasagawa, Yasuo Kitagawa, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki
    • Journal Title

      European Journal of Neuroscience vol. 25

      Pages: 168-180

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Conservation of novel Mahya genes shows the existence of neural functions common between Hymenoptera and Deuterostome2005

    • Author(s)
      Tsuchimoto M., Yasuo S., Funada M., Aoki M., Sasagawa H., Yoshimura T., Tadauchi O., Cameron A.S., Kitagawa Y., Kadowaki T.
    • Journal Title

      Development Genes and Evolution 215・11

      Pages: 564-574

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 日本の蜜源植物(The honeybee plant of Japan)2005

    • Author(s)
      共著
    • Total Pages
      331
    • Publisher
      社団法人 日本養蜂はちみつ協会
    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 日本の蜜源植物(The honeybee plant of Japan)2005

    • Author(s)
      共著
    • Publisher
      社団法人 日本養蜂はちみつ協会(印刷中)
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2004-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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