没有证据表明招募信息素能调节蚂蚁 Lasius niger 的嗅觉、视觉或空间学习能力

IF 1.9 2区 生物学 Q3 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI:10.1007/s00265-024-03430-1
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摘要 信息素可能是动物王国中最常见的种内交流形式,被广泛应用于各种场合。它们对认知过程的调节潜力已在脊椎动物和无脊椎动物中得到证实。在这方面,社会性昆虫尤其有趣,因为它们广泛使用信息素来组织集体行为。招募信息素可能会鼓励学习,但也可能由于阻断效应而阻碍学习,即信息素已经部分预测了奖励,阻碍了与奖励相关联的更多线索。在这里,我们利用自由运行学习试验,使用真实的信息素强度来测试对黑园蚁学习的调节作用。我们发现,没有证据表明三种模式(嗅觉、视觉和空间)的学习会受到真实信息素痕迹的影响。有趣的是,这与蜜蜂的研究结果截然不同。值得注意的是,黑蚁和阿根廷蚂蚁的联想学习似乎不受招募信息素的影响,而蜜蜂(可能是研究得最好的社会性昆虫物种)的联想学习却受到了招募信息素的影响。我们推测,特定物种对社会信息使用的重要性可能会促使信息素对广泛的认知过程产生调节作用。 意义声明 费洛蒙已被证明可以调节多种动物的联想学习。在社会性昆虫中,已发现吸引力信息素能增强蜜蜂的联想嗅觉学习,但在蚂蚁中却不能。在蚂蚁中,招募信息素预测食物来源;因此,它可能会阻碍对食物奖励的新线索的学习。我们使用自由运行学习试验来测试踪迹信息素对黑线蚁三种不同模式(嗅觉、空间和视觉)的联想学习的影响,但没有发现任何影响的证据。我们的学习试验表明,仅进行一次训练后,嗅觉学习速度很快,空间学习速度适中,而视觉学习则没有。根据我们的研究结果以及其他两个蚂蚁物种的研究结果,我们推测蜜蜂大规模招募蚂蚁的生态觅食条件(即跟随踪迹)并不倾向于使用招募信息素而不是吸引信息素。
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No evidence that recruitment pheromone modulates olfactory, visual, or spatial learning in the ant Lasius niger

Abstract

Pheromones are perhaps the most common form of intraspecific communication in the animal kingdom and used in various contexts. Their modulatory potential on cognitive processes has been demonstrated in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Particularly interesting in this regard are social insects, due to their extensive use of pheromones to organise collective behaviour. Recruitment pheromones might be expected to encourage learning, but could also hinder learning due to a blocking effect, whereby the pheromone already partially predicts the reward, hindering further cues being associated with the reward. Here, we use free-running learning assays using realistic pheromone strength to test for a modulation effect on learning in the black garden ant Lasius niger. We found no evidence that learning in three modalities (olfactory, visual, and spatial) is affected by the presence of a realistic pheromone trail. Interestingly, this is in contrast to findings in honeybees. The fact that associative learning does not seem to be influenced by recruitment pheromone in L. niger and reportedly the Argentine ant, while it is in honeybees, the possibly best-studied social insect species, is noteworthy. We speculate that a species-specific importance of social information use could drive modulatory effects of pheromones on a wide range of cognitive processes.

Significance statement

Pheromones have been shown to modulate associative learning in a variety of animals. Among social insects, attractive pheromone has been found to enhance associative olfactory learning in honeybees but not in ants. In ants, recruitment pheromone predicts a food source; therefore, it might hinder learning of a new cue for a food reward. We use a free-running learning assay to test for an effect of trail pheromone on associative learning in three different modalities—olfactory, spatial, visual—in Lasius niger, but find no evidence of any effect. Our learning assay demonstrated fast olfactory learning, moderate spatial learning, and no visual learning after only one training visit. Based on our findings, and findings in two other ant species, we speculate that the ecological foraging conditions of mass-recruiting ants, i.e. following a trail, have not favoured a modulation potential of recruitment pheromone opposed to attractive pheromone in honeybees.

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