Measuring individual locomotor rhythms in honey bees, paper wasps and other similar-sized insects

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2014-04-01

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Giannoni-Guzman, Manuel A.
Avalos, Arian
Perez, Jaime Marrero
Loperena, Eduardo J. Otero
Kayim, Mehmet
Medina, Jose Alejandro
Massey, Steve E.
Kence, Meral
Kence, Aykut
Giray, Tugrul
Agosto-Rivera, Jose L.

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The Journal of Experimental Biology Circadian rhythms in social insects are highly plastic and are modulated by multiple factors. In addition, complex behaviors such as sun-compass orientation and time learning are clearly regulated by the circadian system in these organisms. Despite these unique features of social insect clocks, the mechanisms as well as the functional and evolutionary relevance of these traits remain largely unknown. Here we show a modification of the Drosophila activity monitoring (DAM) system that allowed us to measure locomotor rhythms of the honey bee, Apis mellifera (three variants; gAHB, carnica and caucasica), and two paper wasps (Polistes crinitus and Mischocyttarus phthisicus). A side-by-side comparison of the endogenous period under constant darkness (free-running period) led us to the realization that these social insects exhibit significant deviations from the Earth's 24 h rotational period as well as a large degree of inter-individual variation compared with Drosophila. Experiments at different temperatures, using honey bees as a model, revealed that testing the endogenous rhythm at 35 degrees C, which is the hive's core temperature, results in average periods closer to 24 h compared with 25 degrees C (23.8 h at 35 degrees C versus 22.7 h at 25 degrees C). This finding suggests that the degree of tuning of circadian temperature compensation varies among different organisms. We expect that the commercial availability, cost-effectiveness and integrated nature of this monitoring system will facilitate the growth of the circadian field in these social insects and catalyze our understanding of the mechanisms as well as the functional and evolutionary relevance of circadian rhythms.

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Circadian rhythms, Locomotor activity, Honey bees, Apis mellifera, Wasps, Mischocyttarus, Polistes, Temperature compensation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50752

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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.096180

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Department of Biology, Article

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M. A. Giannoni-Guzman et al., “Measuring individual locomotor rhythms in honey bees, paper wasps and other similar-sized insects,” JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, pp. 1307–1315, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50752.