Juvenile hormone and octopamine in the regulation of division of labor in honey bee colonies

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 222-231

  Schulz, David J ^a   Sullivan, Joseph P ^a   Robinson, Gene E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; METHOPRENE; NORFENEFRINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; DRUG MECHANISM; HONEYBEE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LABOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

EID: 0036419937     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.2002.1806     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Barron, A. B., Schulz, D. J., and Robinson, G. E. Octopamine modulates responsiveness to foraging-related stimuli in honey bees. J. Comp. Physiol. A, in press.
2. Beetsma, J., and ten Houten, A. (1975). Effects of juvenile hormone analogues in the food of honey bee colonies. Z. Agnew Entomol. 77, 292-300.
3. Beshers, S. N., Robinson, G. E., and Mittenthal, J. E. (1999). Response thresholds and division of labor in insect colonies. In C. Detrain, Denoubourg, J.L., Pasteels, J.M. (Eds.), Information Processing in Social Insects, pp. 115-139. Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland.
4. Bloch, G., Wheeler, D. E., and Robinson, G. E. (2002). Endocrine influences on the organization of insect societies. In D. Pfaff (Ed.), Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, Vol. 3, pp. 195-236. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
5. Bonson, K. R., Johnson, R. G., Fiorella, D., Rabin, R. A., and Winter, J. C. (1994). Serotonergic control of androgen-induced dominance. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 49, 313-322.
6. Bonson, K. R., and Winter, J. C. (1992). Reversal of testosterone-induced dominance by the serotonergic agonist quipazine. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 42, 809-813.
7. Brain, P. F., and Haug, M. (1992). Hormonal and neurochemical correlates of various forms of animal "aggression." Psychoneuroendocrinology 17, 537-551.
8. Breuer, M. E., McGinnis, M. Y., Lumia, A. R., and Possidente, B. P. (2001). Aggression in male rats receiving anabolic androgenic steroids: Effects of social and environmental provocation. Horm. Behav. 40, 409-418.
9. Cologer-Clifford, A., Simon, N. G., Richter, M. L., Smoluk, S. A., and Lu, S. (1999). Androgens and estrogens modulate 5-HT1A and 5-HT1b agonist effects on aggression. Physiol. Behav. 65, 823-828.
10. Erber, J., Kloppenburg, P., and Scheidler, A. (1993). Neuromodulation by serotonin and octopamine in the honeybee: Behaviour, neuroanatomy and electrophysiology. Experientia 49, 1073-1083.
11. Gammie, S. C., and Truman, J. W. (1997). Neuropeptide hierarchies and the activation of sequential motor behaviors in the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta. J. Neurosci. 17, 4389-4397.
12. Gammie, S. C., and Truman, J. W. (1999). Eclosion hormone provides a link between ecdysis-triggering hormone and crustacean cardioactive peptide in the neuroendocrine cascade that controls ecdysis behavior. J. Exp. Biol. 202, 343-352.
13. Goosey, M. W., and Candy, D. J. (1980). The D-octopamine of the haemolymph of the locust Schistocerca gregaria and its elevation during flight. Insect Biochem. 10, 393-397.
14. Huang, Z.-Y., and Robinson, G. E. (1992). Honeybee colony integration: Worker-worker interactions mediate hormonally regulated plasticity in division of labor. Proc. Natl.-Acad. Sci. USA 89, 11726-11729.
15. Jassim, O., Huang, Z.-Y., and Robinson, G. E. (2000). Juvenile hormone profiles of worker honey bees, Apis mellifera, during normal and accelerated behavioural development. J. Insect Physiol. 46, 243-249.
16. Jaycox, E. R., Skowronek, W., and Gwynn, G. (1974). Behavioral changes in worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) induced by injections of a juvenile hormone mimic. Ann. Emtomol. Soc. Am. 67, 529-534.
17. Kaatz, H., Eichmüller, S., and Kreissl, S. (1994). Stimulatory effect of octopamine on juvenile hormone biosynthesis in honey bees (Apis mellifera): Physiological and immunocytochemical evidence. J. Insect Physiol. 40, 865-872.
18. Kloppenburg, P., and Heinbockel, T. (2000). 5-Hydroxtryptamine modulates pheromone-evoked local field potentials in the macroglomerular complex of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta. J. Exp. Biol. 203, 1701-1709.
19. Kravitz, E. A. (2000). Serotonin and aggression: Insights gained from a lobster model system and speculations on the role of amine neurons in a complex behavior. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 186, 221-238.
20. Linn, C. E., Campbell, M. G., and Rocĺofs, W. L. (1992). Photoperiod cues and the modulatory action of octopamine and 5-hydroxy-tryptamine on locomotor and pheromone response in male gypsy moths, Lymantria dispar. Arch. Ins. Biochem. Physiol. 20, 265-284.
21. Maleszka, R., and Helliwell, P. (2001). Effect of juvenile hormone on short-term olfactory memory in young honeybees (Apis mellifera). Horm. Behav. 40, 403-408.
22. Mani, S. K., Allen, J. M. C., Clark, J. H., Blaustein, J. D., and O'Malley, B. W. (1994). Convergent pathways for steroid hormone- and neurotransmitter-induced rat sexual behavior. Science 265, 1246-1248.
23. Orchard, I. (1982). Octopamine in insects: Neurotransmitter, neuro-hormone, and neuromodulator. Can. J. Zool. 60, 659-669.
24. Page, R. E., Robinson, G. E., Britton, D. S., and Fondrk, M. K. (1992). Genotypic variability for rates of behavioral development in worker honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Behav. Ecol. 3, 173-180.
25. Robinson, G. E. (1985). Effects of a juvenile hormone analogue on honey bee foraging behaviour and alarm pheromone production. J. Insect Physiol. 31, 277-282.
26. Robinson, G. E. (1987a). Regulation of honey bee age polyethism by juvenile hormone. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 20, 329-338.
27. Robinson, G. E. (1987b). Modulation of alarm pheromone perception in the honey bee: Evidence for division of labor based on hormonally regulated response thresholds. J. Comp. Physiol. A 160, 613-619.
28. Robinson, G. E. (1998). From society to genes with the honey bee. Am. Sci. 86, 456-462.
29. Robinson, G. E., Page, R. E., Strambi, C., and Strambi, A. (1989). Hormonal and genetic control of behavioral integration in honey bee colonies. Science 246, 109-112.
30. Robinson, G. E., and Ratnieks, F. (1987). Induction of premature honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) flight by juvenile hormone analogs administered orally or topically. J. Econ. Entomol. 80, 784-787.
31. Robinson, G. E., and Vargo, E. L. (1997). Juvenile hormone in adult eusocial Hymenoptera: Gonadotropin and behavioral pacemaker. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 35, 559-583.
32. Sasagawa, H., Sasaki, M., and Okada, I. (1989). Hormonal control of the division of labor in adult honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). I. Effect of methoprene on corpora allata and hypopharyngeal gland, and its alpha-glucosidase activity. Appl. Entomol. Zool. 24, 66-77.
33. Schulz, D. J., and Robinson, G. E. (1998). Effects of colony food shortage on behavioral development in honey bees. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 42, 295-303.
34. Schulz, D. J., and Robinson, G. E. (1999). Biogenic amines and division of labor in honey bee colonies: Behaviorally related changes in the antennal lobes and age-related changes in the mushroom bodies. J. Comp. Physiol. A 184, 481-488.
35. Schulz, D. J., and Robinson, G. E. (2001). Octopamine influences division of labor in honey bee colonies. J. Comp. Physiol. A 187, 53-61.
36. Sigg, D., Thompson, C. M., and Mercer, A. R. (1997). Activity-dependent changes to the brain and behavior of the honey bee, Apis mellifera. J. Neurosci. 17, 7148-7156.
37. Sullivan, J. P., Jassim, O., Fahrbach, S. E., and Robinson, G. E. (2000). Juvenile hormone paces behavioral development in the adult worker honey bee. Horm. Behav. 37, 1-14.
38. Wagener-Hulme, C., Kuehn, J. C., Schulz, D. J., and Robinson, G. E. (1999). Biogenic amines and division of labor in honey bee colonies. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 184, 471-479.
39. Walikonis, R., Schoun, D., Zacharias, D., Henley, J., Coburn, P., and Stout, J. (1991). Attractiveness of the male Acheta domesticus calling song to females. III. The relation of age-correlated changes in syllable period recognition and phonotactic threshold to juvenile hormone III biosynthesis. J. Comp. Physiol. A 169, 751-764.
40. Winston, M. L. (1987). The Biology of the Honey Bee. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
41. Withers, G. S., Fahrbach, S. E., and Robinson, G. E. (1995). Effects of experience and juvenile hormone on the organization of the mushroom bodies of honey bees. J. Neurobiol. 26, 130-144.