Titre
Tropical and montane Apis cerana show distinct dance-distance calibration curves.
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
A K, B.K.
Auteure/Auteur
George, E.A.
Auteure/Auteur
Brockmann, A.
Auteure/Auteur
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Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1477-9145
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2024-07-01
Volume
227
Numéro
13
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
Social bees have evolved sophisticated communication systems to recruit nestmates to newly found food sources. As foraging ranges can vary from a few hundred meters to several kilometers depending on the environment or season, populations of social bee species living in different climate zones likely show specific adaptations in their recruitment communication. Accordingly, studies in the western honey bee, Apis mellifera, demonstrated that temperate populations exhibit shallower dance-calibration curves compared with tropical populations. Here, we report the first comparison of calibration curves for three Indian Apis cerana lineages: the tropical Apis indica, and the two montane Himalayan populations Apis cerana cerana (Himachal Pradesh) and Apis cerana kashmirensis (Jammu and Kashmir). We found that the colonies of the two montane A. cerana populations show dance-distance calibration curves with significantly shallower slopes than those of the tropical A. indica. Next, we transferred A. c. cerana colonies to Bangalore (∼ 2600 km away) to obtain calibration curves in the same location as A. indica. The common garden experiment confirmed this difference in slopes, implying that the lineages exhibit genetically fixed differences in dance-distance coding. However, the slopes of the calibration curves of the transferred A. c. cerana colonies were also significantly higher than those of the colonies tested in their original habitat, indicating an important effect of the environment. The differences in dance-distance coding between temperate and tropical A. cerana lineages resemble those described for Apis mellifera, suggesting that populations of both species independently evolved similar adaptations.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_BA4C0D0B4297
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Open Access
Oui
Date de création
2024-06-14T14:22:44.887Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T22:14:10Z
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38853597.pdf
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published
Licence
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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1.78 MB
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Adobe PDF
PID Serval
serval:BIB_BA4C0D0B4297.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_BA4C0D0B42972
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