Eye structure correlates with distinct foraging-bout timing in primitive ants

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Greiner, Birgit ^a   Narendra, Ajay ^b   Reid, Samuel F ^b   Dacke, Marie ^c   Ribi, Willi A ^d   Zeil, Jochen ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d University of Human Sciences of the Principality of Liechtenstein   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EYE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; LETTER; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EYE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MYRMECIA (INSECT);

EID: 35348912461     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.08.015     Document Type: Letter

References (12)

1. Gehring W.J., and Wehner R. Heat shock protein synthesis and thermotolerance in Cataglyphis, an ant from the Sahara desert. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92 (1995) 2994-2998
2. Hasegawa E., and Crozier R.H. Phylogenetic relationships among species groups of the ant genus Myrmecia. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 38 (2006) 575-582
3. Eriksson S.E. Attack behaviour and distance perception in the Australian bulldog ant Myrmecia nigriceps. J. Exp. Biol. 119 (1985) 115-131
4. Warrant E.J., Kelber A., Gislén A., Greiner B., and Ribi W.A. Nocturnal vision and landmark orientation in a tropical halictid bee. Curr. Biol. 14 (2004) 1309-1318
5. Menzi U. Visual adaptation in nocturnal and diurnal ants. J. Comp. Physiol. A 160 (1987) 11-21
6. Greiner B. Adaptations for nocturnal vision in insect apposition eyes. Int. Rev. Cytol. 250 (2006) 1-46
7. Theobald J.C., Greiner B., Wcislo W.T., and Warrant E.J. Visual summation in night-flying sweat bees: a theoretical study. Vision Res. 46 (2006) 2298-2309
8. Greiner B. Visual adaptations in the night-active wasp Apoica pallens. J. Comp. Neurol. 495 (2006) 255-262
9. Warrant E.J. Seeing better at night: life style, eye design and the optimum strategy of spatial and temporal summation. Vision Res. 39 (1999) 1611-1630
10. Kelber A., Warrant E.J., Pfaff M., Wallen R., Theobald J.C., Wcislo W.T., and Raguso R. Light intensity limits the foraging activity in nocturnal and crepuscular bees. Behav. Ecol. 17 (2006) 63-72
11. McIntyre P., and Caveney S. Superposition optics and the time of flight in onitine dung beetles. J. Comp. Physiol. A 183 (1998) 45-60
12. Moser J.C., Reeve J.D., Bento J.M.S., Della Lucia T.M.C., Cameron R.S., and Heck N.M. Eye size and behaviour of day- and night-flying leafcutting ant alates. J. Zool. 264 (2004) 69-75