Friends and Foes from an Ant Brain's Point of View - Neuronal Correlates of Colony Odors in a Social Insect

Brandstaetter, Andreas Simon; Rössler, Wolfgang; Kleineidam, Christoph

Friends and Foes from an Ant Brain's Point of View - Neuronal Correlates of Colony Odors in a Social Insect

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2011

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Brandstaetter, Andreas Simon

Rössler, Wolfgang

Kleineidam, Christoph

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Open Access Gold

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Biologie

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PLoS ONE. 2011, 6(6), e21383. eISSN 1932-6203. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021383

Zusammenfassung

Successful cooperation depends on reliable identification of friends and foes. Social insects discriminate colony members (nestmates/friends) from foreign workers (non-nestmates/foes) by colony-specific, multi-component colony odors. Traditionally, complex processing in the brain has been regarded as crucial for colony recognition. Odor information is represented as spatial patterns of activity and processed in the primary olfactory neuropile, the antennal lobe (AL) of insects, which is analogous to the vertebrate olfactory bulb. Correlative evidence indicates that the spatial activity patterns reflect odor-quality, i.e., how an odor is perceived. For colony odors, alternatively, a sensory filter in the peripheral nervous system was suggested, causing specific anosmia to nestmate colony odors. Here, we investigate neuronal correlates of colony odors in the brain of a social insect to directly test whether they are anosmic to nestmate colony odors and whether spatial activity patterns in the AL can predict how odor qualities like "friend" and "foe" are attributed to colony odors.

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570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

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BRANDSTAETTER, Andreas Simon, Wolfgang RÖSSLER, Christoph KLEINEIDAM, 2011. Friends and Foes from an Ant Brain's Point of View - Neuronal Correlates of Colony Odors in a Social Insect. In: PLoS ONE. 2011, 6(6), e21383. eISSN 1932-6203. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021383

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@article{Brandstaetter2011Frien-16045,
  year={2011},
  doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0021383},
  title={Friends and Foes from an Ant Brain's Point of View - Neuronal Correlates of Colony Odors in a Social Insect},
  number={6},
  volume={6},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  author={Brandstaetter, Andreas Simon and Rössler, Wolfgang and Kleineidam, Christoph},
  note={Article Number: e21383}
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