CAREER: Eavesdropping and Stingless Bee Olfactory Communication Strategies

职业：窃听和无刺蜜蜂嗅觉交流策略

• 批准号: 0545856
• 负责人: James Nieh
• 金额: $ 55.63万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545856&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Eavesdropping; Stingless; Bee; Olfactory

This research is the first detailed investigation of olfactory eavesdropping, espionage, in stingless bees. It evaluates how such espionage occurs in the field for natural food sources and how strategies such as changing odor-trail length may provide counter-espionage protection. The ultimate goal is to determine whether olfactory espionage may have driven the evolution of concealed symbolic communication inside the nest. For example, honeybees can encode the distance and direction to food through a special waggle dance performed inside the nest. Some stingless bees species may encode distance through sound pulses given inside the nest. Why did such sophisticated communication evolve, given that most social insects rely mainly on odor communication? Olfactory espionage may have played a role, driving communication into the protected fortress of the nest.Integral to this project is the goal of providing educational opportunities for San Diego-area minority and underprivileged high-school students, undergraduates from two-year and four-year colleges, and a graduate student as participants in a research experience that will teach the scientific method at different levels of sophistication, and enhance student teaching abilities. This will be accomplished through coursework, the ORBS (Opportunities for Research in Behavioral Sciences) Program developed by the P.I. to involve students and faculty at high schools and community colleges, and the e-lab. The ORBS program addresses the specific needs of minority high-school and community-college students while partnering them with four-year university students as models for their goal of advancing to higher education.Intellectual Merit: The research will increase our understanding of the role of eavesdropping and espionage in the evolution of animal communication. It begins to examine the question of whether espionage led to the evolution of communication systems incorporating counter-espionage strategies.Broader Impacts: The project will integrate research and education by examining the evolution of olfactory eavesdropping while providing graduate training, supporting undergraduate university, community-college, and high-school science education, and increasing minority participation in the Behavioral Sciences. Funds will (1) support one graduate student and that student's progress towards a scientific career, (2) train young Brazilian scientists, (3) support ORBS and enable students to acquire field experience and to present their results at conferences, and (4) support a yearly ORBS symposium and associated publication. This symposium provides an annual venue in which San Diego minority science-education programs will meet to share resources, recruit ORBS participants, and foster regional interest in the Behavioral Sciences.

这项研究是对无刺蜜蜂的嗅觉窃听，间谍活动的首次详细研究。它评估了这种间谍活动如何在天然食品源中发生，以及诸如不断变化的气味 - 轨道长度等策略如何提供反及时保护的策略。最终目标是确定嗅觉间谍活动是否可能导致巢内隐藏符号通信的演变。例如，Honeybees可以通过在巢中表演的特殊摇摆舞对食物的距离和方向编码。一些无刺的蜜蜂物种可能会通过巢中给出的声音脉冲编码距离。鉴于大多数社交昆虫主要依赖气味交流，为什么如此复杂的交流会发展？嗅觉间谍活动可能已经发挥了作用，推动了巢穴的沟通。该项目的目的是为圣地亚哥地区的少数群体和贫困的高中生提供教育机会，两年年级和四年制大学的大学生的本科生在研究经验中作为研究生的参与者将在研究经验中教学能力学教学，并在不同的级别上进行了教学。这将是通过P.I.开发的ORB（行为科学研究机会）来完成的。让学生和教职员工参与高中和社区学院以及电子lab。 ORB计划满足了少数民族高中和社区大学学生的特定需求，同时与四年制大学生合作，以此作为他们晋升高等教育的目标的模型。智慧优点：这项研究将提高我们对窃听和间谍活动在动物交流中的作用的理解。它开始研究以下问题，即间谍活动是否导致了融合了反冲动策略的通信系统的演变。Boader的影响：该项目将通过检查嗅觉窃听的演变，同时提供毕业生培训，支持培训培训，支持培训培训，支持培训培训，社区大学，社区大学和高学科的科学教育以及增加高级科学教育以及增加次要的次要参与，以及增加了行为的行动习惯。资金将（1）支持一名研究生以及该学生在科学职业方面的进步，（2）培训年轻的巴西科学家，（3）支持球，并使学生能够获得实地经验并在会议上介绍其成果，并且（4）支持年度的球体研讨会和相关出版物。该研讨会提供了一个年度场所，在该场所中，圣地亚哥少数民族科学教育计划将开会以共享资源，招募球体参与者，并促进行为科学的地区兴趣。