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DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2014.0325 |
Social facilitation of insect reproduction with motor-driven tactile stimuli | |
Uzsak, Adrienn1,2; Dieffenderfer, James3; Bozkurt, Alper3; Schal, Coby1,2 | |
通讯作者 | Schal, Coby |
来源期刊 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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ISSN | 0962-8452 |
EISSN | 1471-2954 |
出版年 | 2014 |
卷号 | 281期号:1783 |
英文摘要 | Tactile stimuli provide animals with important information about the environment, including physical features such as obstacles, and biologically relevant cues related to food, mates, hosts and predators. The antennae, the principal sensory organs of insects, house an array of sensory receptors for olfaction, gustation, audition, nociception, balance, stability, graviception, static electric fields, and thermo-, hygro-and mechanoreception. The antennae, being the anteriormost sensory appendages, play a prominent role in social interactions with conspecifics that involve primarily chemosensory and tactile stimuli. In the German cockroach (Blattella germanica) antennal contact during social interactions modulates brain-regulated juvenile hormone production, ultimately accelerating the reproductive rate in females. The primary sensory modality mediating this social facilitation of reproduction is antennal mechanoreception. We investigated the key elements, or stimulus features, of antennal contact that socially facilitate reproduction in B. germanica females. Using motor-driven antenna mimics, we assessed the physiological responses of females to artificial tactile stimulation. Our results indicate that tactile stimulation with artificial materials, some deviating significantly from the native antennal morphology, can facilitate female reproduction. However, none of the artificial stimuli matched the effects of social interactions with a conspecific female. |
英文关键词 | social facilitation tactile stimuli reproduction |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000334411600029 |
WOS关键词 | BLATTELLA-GERMANICA ; BEHAVIORAL GREGARIZATION ; SCHISTOCERCA-GREGARIA ; JUVENILE-HORMONE ; DESERT LOCUST ; COCKROACH ; FEMALE ; SYSTEM ; COURTSHIP ; RESPONSES |
WOS类目 | Biology ; Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS研究方向 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/184483 |
作者单位 | 1.N Carolina State Univ, Dept Entomol, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA; 2.N Carolina State Univ, WM Keck Ctr Behav Biol, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA; 3.N Carolina State Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Uzsak, Adrienn,Dieffenderfer, James,Bozkurt, Alper,et al. Social facilitation of insect reproduction with motor-driven tactile stimuli[J],2014,281(1783). |
APA | Uzsak, Adrienn,Dieffenderfer, James,Bozkurt, Alper,&Schal, Coby.(2014).Social facilitation of insect reproduction with motor-driven tactile stimuli.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,281(1783). |
MLA | Uzsak, Adrienn,et al."Social facilitation of insect reproduction with motor-driven tactile stimuli".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 281.1783(2014). |
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