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Tachykinin signaling inhibits task-specific behavioral responsiveness in honeybee workers

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作者： Bin Han;Qiaohong Wei;Fan Wu;Han Hu;Chuan Ma;Lifeng Meng;Xufeng Zhang;Mao Feng;Yu Fang;Olav Rueppell;Jianke li

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期刊名称： eLife

ISSN： 2050-084X

年卷期： 2021 年 10 卷

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收录情况： JCR（2021版）

摘要： Behavioral specialization is key to the success of social insects and leads to division of labor among colony members. Response thresholds to task-specific stimuli are thought to proximally regulate behavioral specialization, but their neurobiological regulation is complex and not well understood. Here, we show that response thresholds to task-relevant stimuli correspond to the specialization of three behavioral phenotypes of honeybee workers in the well-studied and important Apis mellifera and Apis cerana. Quantitative neuropeptidome comparisons suggest two tachykinin-related peptides (TRP2 and TRP3) as candidates for the modification of these response thresholds. Based on our characterization of their receptor binding and downstream signaling, we confirm a functional role of tachykinin signaling in regulating specific responsiveness of honeybee workers: TRP2 injection and RNAi-mediated downregulation cause consistent, opposite effects on responsiveness to task-specific stimuli of each behaviorally specialized phenotype but not to stimuli that are unrelated to their tasks. Thus, our study demonstrates that TRP signaling regulates the degree of task-specific responsiveness of specialized honeybee workers and may control the context specificity of behavior in animals more generally. © Han et al.

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