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Prisoner's dilema game found in a multiple queen founnding ant species

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K08148
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Insect science
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Principal Investigator

Satoh Toshiyuki  東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 教授 (80242238)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 小山 哲史  東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (10549637)
佐々木 謙  玉川大学, 農学部, 教授 (40387353)
Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords協力行動 / 非血縁 / オクトパミン / 行動操作 / 囚人のジレンマ / 生体アミン / 社会性昆虫 / アリ / 多雌創設 / 栄養交換 / 行動学 / 昆虫 / 進化 / 生態学 / 神経科学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Polyrhachis moesta queens often found colonies with unrelated queens. Queens of mature colonies have significantly higher levels of octopamine in their brains than founding queens. In a paired experiment, the frequency of cooperative behaviors such as nutrient exchange decreased and hostile behavior was induced when both were orally administered octopamine. In an experiment using three founding queens, the frequency and duration of nutrient exchange and allo-grooming were also found to decrease in queens orally administered with octopamine compared to the control group, suppressing cooperative behavior. In addition, high expression of juvenile hormone-related genes and genes related to the behavior of egg-laying queens were detected in the heads of mature colony queens.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ヒトを含む霊長類では「囚人のジレンマモデル」による互恵的利他行動の進化的理解が進んでいるが、無脊椎動物における非血縁者間の協力行動、互恵的利他行動に関する研究は皆無に等しかった。本研究で、無脊椎動物における知能によらない本能的行動プログラムに基づく互恵的利他行動の進化の可能性が示された。互恵的利他行動に関する普遍的な原理、メカニズムが明らかになる可能性がある。創設女王どうしの「裏切り」、「搾取」、「協力」、「無視」の利得とコストが明らかになれば、協力行動の発現と消失にかかわる遺伝子発現、生理的メカニズムが解明されれば、協力行動を究極要因と至近要因の両面から理解することができる。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Landscape Learning during Flight Ensures Homing in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Drones2021

    • Author(s)
      Hayashi Shinya、Satoh Toshiyuki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Insect Behavior

      Volume: - Issue: 3 Pages: 82-88

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10905-021-09771-3

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Landscape features causing the local congregation of honeybee males (Apis mellifera L.).2021

    • Author(s)
      Hayashi Shinya、Satoh Toshiyuki
    • Journal Title

      Ethology

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Identification of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) using an artificially synthesized trail pheromone and its effects on native Japanese ants2020

    • Author(s)
      Nishisue K, Koyama S, Satoh T
    • Journal Title

      Applied Entomology and Zoology

      Volume: 55 Issue: 1 Pages: 141-147

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13355-019-00663-9

    • NAID

      40022153415

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Sperm maturation process occurs in the seminal vesicle following sperm transition from testis in honey bee males2019

    • Author(s)
      Shinya Hayashi, Toshiyuki Satoh
    • Journal Title

      Apidologie

      Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Pages: 369-378

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13592-019-00652-5

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Suppression of flight activity by a dopamine receptor antagonist in honeybee (Apis mellifera) virgin queens and workers2019

    • Author(s)
      Sayed Ibrahim Farkhary, Ken Sasaki, Shinya Hayashi, Ken-ichi Harano, Satoshi Koyama,
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Insect Behaviour

      Volume: 32 Issue: 3 Pages: 218-224

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10905-019-09728-7

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Effect of Queen Number on Queen Overwintering Survival in Camponotus vitiosus2019

    • Author(s)
      Akiyoshi SHIROTO, Toshiyuki SATOH and Tadao HIROTA
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Myrmecological society of Japan

      Volume: 40 Pages: 54-60

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 血縁のないチクシトゲアリ創設女王どうしの協力行動2017

    • Author(s)
      佐藤俊幸
    • Journal Title

      昆虫と自然

      Volume: 52(9) Pages: 33-35

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] アリのひみつ大図鑑2023

    • Author(s)
      佐藤俊幸、島田拓
    • Total Pages
      88
    • Publisher
      国土社
    • ISBN
      9784337223011
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Advances in Animal Science and Zoology. Volume 12 (Chapter X MONOGYNY AND POLYGYNY: PLASTICITY IN THE NUMBER OF QUEENS IN COLONIES OF ARBOREAL ANT SPECIES)2018

    • Author(s)
      Ken Sasaki, Satoshi Koyama, Toshiyuki Satoh
    • Publisher
      Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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