Immune response impairs learning in free-flying bumble-bees

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 479-481

  Alghamdi, A ^a   Dalton, L ^a   Phillis, A ^a   Rosato, E ^a   Mallon, E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross talk; Psychoneuroimmunology; Social insects

Indexed keywords

BEE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 51549098441     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0331     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Bitterman, M. E., Menzel, R., Fietz, A. & Schaefer, S. 1983 Classical conditioning of proboscis extension in honey bees. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 97, 107-119.
2. Dantzer, R. 2004 Innate immunity at the forefront of psychoneuroimmunology. Brain Behav. Immun. 18, 1-6. (doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2003.09.008)
3. Gegear, R. J., Otterstatter, M. C. & Thomson, J. D. 2006 Bumble-bee foragers infected by a gut parasite have an impaired ability to utilize floral information. Proc. R. Soc. B 273, 1073-1078. (doi:10.1098/rspb. 2005.3423)
4. Hardin, J. & Hilbe, J. M. 2003 Generalized estimating equations. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall.
5. Iqbal, J. & Mueller, U. 2007 Virus infection causes specific learning deficits in honeybee foragers. Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 1517-1521. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0022)
6. Konig, C. & Schmid-Hempel, P. 1995 Foraging activity and immunocompetence in workers of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris L. Proc. R. Soc. B 260, 225-227. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1995.0084)
7. Korner, P. & Schmid-Hempel, P. 2004 In vivo dynamics of an immune response in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 87, 59-66. (doi:10.1016/j.jip.2004.07.004)
8. Laloi, D., Bailez, O., Roger, B., Pham-Delegue, M. H. & Wadhams, L. J. 2000 Recognition of complex odors by restrained and free-flying honeybees, Apis mellifera. J. Chem. Ecol. 26, 2307-2319. (doi:10.1023/A: 1005522826673)
9. Maier, S. F. & Watkins, L. R. 1998 Cytokines for psychologists: implications of bi-directional immune to brain communication for understanding behaviour, mood, and cognition. Psychol. Rev. 105, 83-107. (doi:10.1037/0033-295X.105.1.83)
10. Mallon, E. B., Brockmann, A. & Schmid-Hempel, P. 2003a Immune response inhibits associative learning in insects. Proc. R. Soc. B 270, 2471-2473. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2456)
11. Mallon, E. B., Loosli, R. & Schmid-Hempel, P. 2003b Specific versus nonspecific immune defense in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris L. Evolution 57, 1444-1447. (doi:10.1554/02-715)
12. Moore, J. 2002 Parasites and the behaviour of animals. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
13. Moret, Y. & Schmid-Hempel, P. 2000 Survival for immunity: the price of immune system activation for bumblebee workers. Science 290, 1166-1168. (doi:10.1126/science.290.5494.1166)
14. Raine, N. E. & Chittka, L. 2008 The correlation of learning speed and natural foraging success in bumble-bees. Proc. R. Soc. B 275, 803-808. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1652)
15. Raine, N. E., Ings, T. C., Ramos-Rodriguez, O. & Chittka, L. 2006 Intercolony variation in learning performance of a wild British bumblebee population (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus terrestris audax). Entomologia Generalis 28, 241-256.
16. Riddell, C. E. & Mallon, E. B. 2006 Insect psychoneuroimmunology: immune response reduces learning in protein starved bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). Brain Behav. Immun. 20, 135-138. (doi:10.1016/j.bbi. 2005.06.008)
17. Tyler, E. R., Adams, S. & Mallon, E. B. 2006 An immune response in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris leads to increased food consumption. BMC Physiol. 6, 6. (doi:10.1186/1472-6793-6-6)