First evidence of fine colour discrimination ability in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 72-77

  Camlitepe, Y ^a   Aksoy, V ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absolute conditioning; Cataglyphis aenescens; Dichromacy; Differential conditioning; Fine colour discrimination; Formica cunicularia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION TEST; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

CATAGLYPHIS AENESCENS; FORMICA CUNICULARIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 76149095649     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.037853     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Aksoy, V. and Camlitepe, Y. (2005). Use of idiothetic information for left/right turning memory by the ant Formica pratensis. Biologia. 60 (2), 197-200.
2. Backhaus, W. and Menzel, R. (1987). Color distance derived from a receptor model of color vision in the honeybee. Biol. Cybern. 55, 321-331.
3. Barta, A. and Harvath, G. (2004). Why is it advantageous for animals to detect celestial polarization in the ultraviolet? Skylight polarization under clouds and canopies is strongest in the UV. J. Theor. Biol. 226, 429-437.
4. Camlitepe, Y. and Stradling, D. J. (1995). Wood ants orient to magnetic fields. P. Roy. Soc. Lond. B Bio. 261, 37-41. (Pubitemid 26447043)
5. Camlitepe, Y., Aksoy, V., Uren, N., Yilmaz, A. and Becenen, I. (2005). An experimental analysis on the magnetic field sensitivity of the black-meadow ant Formica pratensis Retzius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Acta. Biol. Hung. 56 (3-4), 215-224. (Pubitemid 41238269)
6. Chamberlain, S. A. and Holland, J. N. (2008). Density-mediated, context-dependent consumer-resource interactions between ants and extrafloral nectar plants. Ecology 89, 1364-1374.
7. Chittka, L. (1996). Optimal sets of colour receptors and opponent processes for coding of natural objects in insect vision. J. Theor. Biol. 181, 179-196.
8. Chittka, L. and Menzel, R. (1992). The evolutionary adaptation of flower colours and the insect pollinator's colour vision. J. Comp. Physiol. A 170, 171-181.
9. Chittka, L., Shmida, A., Troje, N. and Menzel, R. (1994). Ultraviolet as a component of flower reflections, and the colour perception of hymenoptera. Vision Res. 34, 1489-1508.
10. Chittka, L., Gumbert, A. and Kunze, J. (1997). Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species. Behav. Ecol. 8, 239-249. (Pubitemid 27266413)
11. Chittka, L., Spaethe, J., Schmidt, A. and Hickelsberger, A. (2001). Adaptation, constraint and chance in the evolution of flower color and pollinator colour vision. In Cognitive Ecology of Pollination (ed. L. Chittka and J. D. Thompson), pp. 106-126. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
12. Cosens, D. and Toussaint, N. (1985). An experimental study on the foraging strategy of the wood ant Formica aquilonia. Anim. Behav. 33, 541-552.
13. Dyer, A. G. (1999). Broad spectral sensitivities in the honeybee's photoreceptors limit colour constancy. J. Comp. Physiol. A 185, 445-453.
14. Dyer, A. G. and Chittka, L. (2004a). Biological significance of distinguishing between similar colours in spectrally variable illumination: bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) as a case study. J. Comp. Physiol. A 190, 105-114.
15. Dyer, A. G. and Chittka, L. (2004b). Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees. Naturwissenschaften 91, 224-227.
16. Dyer, A. G. and Chittka, L. (2004c). Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) sacrifice foraging speed to solve difficult colour discrimination tasks. J. Comp. Physiol. A 190, 759-763.
17. Dyer, F. C. (1996). Reflection of near-ultraviol et radiation from flowers of Australian native plants. Aust. J. Bot. 44, 473-488.
18. Giurfa, M. (2004). Conditioning procedure and color discrimination in the honeybee Apis mellifera. Naturwissenschaften 91-5, 228-231.
19. Giurfa, M., Vorobyev, M., Brandt, R., Posner, B. and Menzel, R. (1997). Discrimination of coloured stimuli by honeybees: alternative use of achromatic and chromatic signals. J. Comp. Physiol. A 180, 235-243. (Pubitemid 27115257)
20. Kelber, A. (2005). Alternative use of chromatic and achromatic cues in a hawkmoth. Proc. R. Soc. B 273, 2143-2147.
21. Kelber, A. and Henique, U. (1999). Trichromatic colour vision in the hummingbird hawkmoth, Macroglossum stellatarum L. J. Comp. Physiol A 184, 535-541. (Pubitemid 29298280)
22. Kelber, A., Vorobyev, M. and Osorio, D. (2003). Animal colour vision - behavioural tests and physiological concepts. Biol. Rev. 78, 81-118. (Pubitemid 36253947)
23. Kevan, P., Giurfa, M. and Chittka, L. (1996). Why are there so many and so few white flowers? Trends Plants Sci. 1, 280-284. (Pubitemid 27140936)
24. Krúdy, A. and Ladunga, K. (2001). Measuring wavelength discrimination threshold along the entire visible spectrum. Per. Pol. Mech. Eng. 45/1, 41-48. (Pubitemid 32395931)
25. Labhart, T. (1986). The electrophysiology of photoreceptors in the different eye regions of the desert ant, Cataglyphis bicolor. J. Comp. Physiol. A 158, 1-7.
26. Lehrer, M. (1994). Spatial vision in the honeybee: The use of different cues in different tasks. Vision Res. 34, 2363-2385.
27. Menzel, R. (1973). Evidence for color receptors in the Hymenoptera eye obtained from selective adaptation experiments. T-I.-T. Life Sci. 3, 95-100.
28. Möller, R. (2002). Insects could exploit UV-green contrast for landmark navigation J. Theor. Biol. 214 (4), 619-631.
29. Niggebrügge, C., Leboulle, G., Menzel, R., Komischke, B. and de Ibarra, N. H. (2009). Fast learning but coarse discrimination of colours in restrained honeybees. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 1344-1350.
30. Peakall, R., Handel, S. N. and Beattie, A. J. (1991). Ant pollination. In Ant-Plant Interactions (ed. C. R. Huxley and D. F. Dutler), pp. 421-429. New York: Oxford University Press.
31. Pichaud, F., Briscoe, A. and Desplan, C. (1999). Evolution of colour vision. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 9, 622-627.
32. Riveros, A. J. and Srygley, R. B. (2008). Do leaf cutter ants, Atta colombica, orient their path-integrated home vector with a magnetic compass? Anim. Behav. 75/4, 1273-1281.
33. Vorobyev, M. and Menzel, R. (1999). Flower advertisement for insects: bees, a case study. In Adaptive Mechanism in the Ecology of Vision (ed. S. N. Archer, M. B. A. Djamgoz, E. R. Loew, J. C. Partridge and S. Vallerga), pp. 537-553. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
34. Wehner, R. (1984). Astro navigation in insects. Annu. Rev. Entorno!. 29, 277-298.