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| Title |
Appetitive floral odours prevent aggression in honeybees
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms10247 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Morgane Nouvian, Lucie Hotier, Charles Claudianos, Martin Giurfa, Judith Reinhard |
| Abstract |
Honeybees defend their colonies aggressively against intruders and release a potent alarm pheromone to recruit nestmates into defensive tasks. The effect of floral odours on this behaviour has never been studied, despite the relevance of these olfactory cues for the biology of bees. Here we use a novel assay to investigate social and olfactory cues that drive defensive behaviour in bees. We show that social interactions are necessary to reveal the recruiting function of the alarm pheromone and that specific floral odours-linalool and 2-phenylethanol-have the surprising capacity to block recruitment by the alarm pheromone. This effect is not due to an olfactory masking of the pheromone by the floral odours, but correlates with their appetitive value. In addition to their potential applications, these findings provide new insights about how honeybees make the decision to engage into defence and how conflicting information affects this process. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 22 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 18% |
| India | 2 | 9% |
| United States | 2 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| Japan | 1 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 9 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 59% |
| Scientists | 4 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 97 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 94 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 22% |
| Researcher | 17 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 12% |
| Unknown | 18 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 46 | 47% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 7 | 7% |
| Psychology | 3 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 9% |
| Unknown | 22 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 140. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 January 2021.
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