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DOI	10.1111/een.12794
	Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates
	Nelson, Annika S.1,2; Zapata, Guillermo D.2,3; Sentner, Keegan T.2,4; Mooney, Kailen A.1,2
通讯作者	Nelson, Annika S.
来源期刊	ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY
ISSN	0307-6946
EISSN	1365-2311
出版年	2020
卷号	45 期号:2 页码:251-258
英文摘要	1. Although associative learning is widespread across animals, its ecological importance is difficult to assess because learning is rarely studied in the field, where informative cues are juxtaposed against complex backgrounds of uninformative noise. 2. Ants rely heavily on chemical cues for foraging and engage in many ecologically important interactions with plants. Nevertheless, little is known about the role of associative learning of plant chemicals in ant foraging for carbohydrates. 3. In a field setting, the present study investigated whether the distantly related ant species Formica podzolica (Formicinae subfamily) and Tapinoma sessile (Dolichoderinae subfamily) exhibited associative learning of the chemical cues from two co-occurring plant species that are taxonomically and chemically distinct (Asteraceae: Helianthella quinquenervis and Apiaceae: Ligusticum porteri). 4. For two consecutive summers, ants were trained to forage from artificial sugar-rich baits associated with the leaf chemicals from either H. quinquenervis or L. porteri for 24 h, after which a two-choice test was deployed to assess whether ants would be more likely to select baits associated with the same (versus different) plant chemicals on which they had been trained. 5. The present study demonstrates associative learning of chemicals from both plant species, and these effects were consistent between ant species and years; training increased bait occupancy from 42% on the untrained scent to 66% on the trained scent. These results indicate that associative odour-learning may be widespread across ants and serve as an important mechanism mediating ant selection of resources.
英文关键词	Ant foraging behaviour ant mutualism associative learning olfactory cues plant chemicals
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA
开放获取类型	Bronze
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000481304300001
WOS关键词	LEAF-CUTTING ANT ; DESERT ANTS ; OLFACTORY MEMORY ; MUTUALISM ; NECTAR ; CONSEQUENCES ; RECOGNITION ; PREFERENCES ; POPULATION ; NAVIGATION
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
来源机构	Colorado State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/215180
作者单位	1.Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697 USA; 2.Rocky Mt Biol Labs, Crested Butte, CO USA; 3.Univ Chicago, Biol Sci Div, Chicago, IL 60637 USA; 4.Colorado State Univ, Warner Coll Nat Resources, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nelson, Annika S.,Zapata, Guillermo D.,Sentner, Keegan T.,et al. Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates[J]. Colorado State University,2020,45(2):251-258.
APA	Nelson, Annika S.,Zapata, Guillermo D.,Sentner, Keegan T.,&Mooney, Kailen A..(2020).Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates.ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY,45(2),251-258.
MLA	Nelson, Annika S.,et al."Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates".ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY 45.2(2020):251-258.