Habituation of the Proboscis Extension Response as a Function of Age in Drosophila melanogaster

Gerontology ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Fois ◽  
J. Médioni ◽  
Eric Le Bourg
Keyword(s):  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Proboscis Extension ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaste

The proboscis extension response

Honey Bees ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Pham-Del√®gue ◽  
A Decourtye
Keyword(s):  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Proboscis Extension

scholarly journals Behavioral responses of the invasive fly Philornis downsi to stimuli from bacteria and yeast in the laboratory and the field in the Galapagos Islands

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boaz Yuval ◽  
Paola Lahuatte ◽  
Arul J. Polpass ◽  
Charlotte Causton ◽  
Edouard Jurkevitch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Management ◽  
Gut Bacteria ◽  
Growth Media ◽  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Galapagos Archipelago ◽  
Philornis Downsi ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
Proboscis Extension ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Bird Feces

AbstractPhilornis downsi (Diptera: Muscidae) is a nest parasitic fly that has invaded the Galapagos archipelago and exerts an onerous burden on populations of endemic land birds. As part of an ongoing effort to develop tools for the integrated management of this fly, our objective was to determine its long and short-range responses to bacterial and yeast cues associated with adult P. downsi. We hypothesized that the bacterial and yeast communities will elicit attraction at distance through volatiles, and appetitive responses upon contact. Accordingly, we amplified bacteria from guts of adult field-caught individuals and bird feces, and yeasts from fermenting papaya juice (a known attractant of P. downsi), on selective growth media, and assayed the response of flies to these microbes or their exudates. In the field, we baited traps with bacteria or yeast and monitored adult fly attraction. In the laboratory, we used the Proboscis Extension Response (PER) to determine the sensitivity of males and females to tarsal contact with bacteria or yeast. Long range trapping efforts yielded two female flies over 112 trap nights (one in extracts from bird faeces and one in extracts from gut bacteria from adult flies). In the laboratory, tarsal contact with bacterial stimuli from gut bacteria from adult flies elicited significantly more responses than did yeast stimuli. We discuss the significance of these findings in context with other studies in the field and identify targets for future work.

scholarly journals Behavioral Responses of the Invasive Fly Philornis downsi to Stimuli from Bacteria and Yeast in the Laboratory and the Field in the Galapagos Islands

Insects ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Boaz Yuval ◽  
Paola Lahuatte ◽  
Polpass Arul Jose ◽  
Charlotte E. Causton ◽  
Edouard Jurkevitch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Management ◽  
Growth Media ◽  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Galapagos Archipelago ◽  
Philornis Downsi ◽  
Baited Traps ◽  
Proboscis Extension ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Bird Feces

Philornis downsi Dodge and Aitken (Diptera: Muscidae) is an avian parasitic fly that has invaded the Galapagos archipelago and exerts an onerous burden on populations of endemic land birds. As part of an ongoing effort to develop tools for the integrated management of this fly, our objective was to determine its long- and short-range responses to bacterial and fungal cues associated with adult P. downsi. We hypothesized that the bacterial and fungal communities would elicit attraction at distance through volatiles, and appetitive responses upon contact. Accordingly, we amplified bacteria from guts of adult field-caught flies and from bird feces, and yeasts from fermenting papaya juice (a known attractant of P. downsi), on selective growth media, and assayed the response of flies to these microbes or their exudates. In the field, we baited traps with bacteria or yeast and monitored adult fly attraction. In the laboratory, we used the proboscis extension response (PER) to determine the sensitivity of males and females to tarsal contact with bacteria or yeast. Long range trapping efforts yielded two female flies over 112 trap-nights (attracted by bacteria from bird feces and from the gut of adult flies). In the laboratory, tarsal contact with stimuli from gut bacteria elicited significantly more responses than did yeast stimuli. We discuss the significance of these findings in context with other studies in the field and identify targets for future work.

In Situ Metabolomics of the Honeybee Brain: The Metabolism of l-Arginine through the Polyamine Pathway in the Proboscis Extension Response (PER)

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 832-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Pratavieira ◽  
Anally Ribeiro da Silva Menegasso ◽  
Thaisa Roat ◽  
Osmar Malaspina ◽  
Mario Sergio Palma
Keyword(s):  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Proboscis Extension ◽  
Honeybee Brain

scholarly journals Honey bees can store and retrieve independent memory traces after complex experiences that combine appetitive and aversive associations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Klappenbach ◽  
Agustin E Lara ◽  
Fernando F Locatelli
Keyword(s):  
Honey Bees ◽  
Differential Conditioning ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Aversive Conditioning ◽  
Appetitive Conditioning ◽  
Olfactory Conditioning ◽  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Conditioning Paradigm ◽  
Aversive Events ◽  
Proboscis Extension

Real-world experiences do often mix appetitive and aversive events. Understanding the ability of animals to extract, store and use this information is an important issue in neurobiology. We used honey bees as model to study learning and memory after a differential conditioning that combines appetitive and aversive training trials. First of all, we describe an aversive conditioning paradigm that constitutes a clear opposite of the well known appetitive olfactory conditioning of the proboscis extension response. A neutral odour is presented paired with the bitter substance quinine. Aversive memory is evidenced later as an odour-specific impairment in appetitive conditioning. Then we tested the effect of mixing appetitive and aversive conditioning trials distributed along the same training session. Differential conditioning protocols like this were used before to study the ability to discriminate odours, however they were not focused on whether appetitive and aversive memories are formed. We found that after a differential conditioning, honey bees establish independent appetitive and aversive memories that do not interfere with each other during acquisition or storage. Finally, we moved the question forward to retrieval and memory expression to evaluate what happens when appetitive and the aversive learned odours are mixed during test. Interestingly, opposite memories compete in a way that they do not cancel each other out. Honey bees showed the ability to switch from expressing appetitive to aversive memory depending on their satiation level.

Search Strategies for Intentionality in the Honeybee Brain

2017 ◽  
pp. 662-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolf Menzel
Keyword(s):  
Rule Learning ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Proboscis Extension Response ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Future Events ◽  
Proboscis Extension ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Dependent Learning ◽  
Honeybee Brain ◽  
Cognitive Dimensions

Do insects, like other animals, expect future events, predict the value of potential actions, and decide between behavioral options without having access to the indicating stimuli? These cognitive capacities are captured by the term intentionality. This chapter addresses the question at two levels, behavior and neural correlates. Behavioral studies are performed with freely flying bees in the natural environment and with harnessed bees in the laboratory by applying the proboscis extension response paradigm. Data are presented and discussed on context-dependent learning, selective attention, rule learning, navigation, communication, and sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Although behavioral analyses document the rich repertoire and the cognitive dimensions of honeybee behavior, intentionality is nearly impossible to prove by behavioral analyses only and neural correlates are essential.

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