Worker nutrition and division of labour in honeybees

By Amy L. Toth, Gene E. Robinson. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Dynamic modelling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony growth and failure (2013, background): “(5) models the effect that limited food resources has on stimulating hive bees to become foragers at a younger than normal age causing a precocious onset of foraging, as reported by Schulz et al. (1998) and Toth and Robinson (2005).”
Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee (2012, background): “Diet and nutrition also shift as workers age (6, 7), but throughout the life cycle, pollen represents the only dietary source of fat and amino acids (8).”
Life expectancy and onset of foraging in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) (2009, background): “Consistent with these findings is the suggestion that the nutrition state, indicated by the amount of stored abdominal lipids, associates with the division of labour and that lipid decline in foragers was also not attributable to age (Toth et al., 2005; Toth and Robinson, 2005).”
Within-nest temporal polyethism in the honey bee (2008, background): “Finally, the term “hive bee” is in wide use by many researchers of temporal polyethism (Huang and Robinson 1999; Robinson 2002; Amdam and Omholt 2003; Amdam et al. 2004; Amdam and Page 2005; Toth and Robinson 2005; Whitfield et al. 2006; Page and Amdam 2007).”
Lipid stores, ovary development, and brain gene expression in Polistes metricus females (2009, methodology): “We quantified lipids by a colorimetric assay with a sulphophosphovanillin reagent, a method that has provided highly consistent and sensitive results for honey bees (Toth and Robinson, 2005; Toth et al., 2005), with two modifications.”
Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making (2009, background): “…does not distinguish between these two possibilities, but in both wasps and honeybees, stored lipid declines before individuals start to forage (O’Donnell and Jeanne 1995; Toth and Robinson 2005), and in the honeybee, this depletion has a causal role in the switch to foraging (Toth et al. 2005).”