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Maximilian Schroeder

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Octopamine increases individual and collective foraging in a neotropical stingless bee

2020

The biogenic amine octopamine (OA) is a key modulator of individual and social behaviours in honeybees, but its role in the other group of highly eusocial bees, the stingless bees, remains largely unknown. In honeybees, OA mediates reward perception and affects a wide range of reward-seeking behaviours. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that OA increases individual foraging effort and collective food source exploitation in the neotropical stingless bee Plebeia droryana . OA treatment caused a significant increase in the number of bees at artificial sucrose feeders and a 1.73-times higher individual foraging frequency. This effect can be explained by OA lowering the sucrose response threshold …

0106 biological sciencesSucroseStingless beePlebeia droryanaForagingZoology010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciences03 medical and health scienceschemistry.chemical_compoundRewardAnimalsSocial BehaviorOctopamine030304 developmental biology0303 health sciencesbiologyFeeding BehaviorOctopamine (drug)Beesbiology.organism_classificationAgricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)EusocialitychemistryAnimal BehaviourGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesBiology Letters
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