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| العنوان: |
No evidence for an evolutionary trade-off between learning and immunity in a social insect. |
| المؤلفون: |
Alghamdi, A., Raine, N. E., Rosato, E., Mallon, E. B. |
| المصدر: |
Biology Letters; 2/23/2009, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p55-57, 3p, 1 Graph |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
LEARNING in animals, BUMBLEBEES, FORAGING behavior, ARTIFICIAL flowers, IMMUNE response, INSECT societies |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
NETHERLANDS |
| مستخلص: |
This article focuses on a study which examined the learning ability of bumble-bee colonies in a free-flying paradigm. A number of bumble-bee colonies were obtained from Koopert Biological Systems in Netherlands. These bees were pre-trained to forage from several bicoloured, artificial flowers in a flight arena. The learning curve of each bee refers to the proportion of errors made before the bee first probed a rewarding flower. A zone of inhibition (ZOI) assay was used to test the immune response of the bees. Results showed that there was a significant difference between colonies in their immune response. According to the study, there is a positive relationship between a colony's ability to learn and the strength of its immune response. |
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