Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence

Petrov, Tatjana; Hajnal, Matej; Klein, Julia; Šafránek, David; Nouvian, Morgane

Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence

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2022

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Šafránek, David

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Informatik und Informationswissenschaft
Biologie
Exzellenzcluster "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour"
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PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science (PLoS). 2022, 18(9), e1010305. ISSN 1553-734X. eISSN 1553-7358. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010305

Zusammenfassung

Honeybees protect their colony against vertebrates by mass stinging and they coordinate their actions during this crucial event thanks to an alarm pheromone carried directly on the stinger, which is therefore released upon stinging. The pheromone then recruits nearby bees so that more and more bees participate in the defence. However, a quantitative understanding of how an individual bee adapts its stinging response during the course of an attack is still a challenge: Typically, only the group behaviour is effectively measurable in experiment; Further, linking the observed group behaviour with individual responses requires a probabilistic model enumerating a combinatorial number of possible group contexts during the defence; Finally, extracting the individual characteristics from group observations requires novel methods for parameter inference.
We first experimentally observed the behaviour of groups of bees confronted with a fake predator inside an arena and quantified their defensive reaction by counting the number of stingers embedded in the dummy at the end of a trial. We propose a biologically plausible model of this phenomenon, which transparently links the choice of each individual bee to sting or not, to its group context at the time of the decision. Then, we propose an efficient method for inferring the parameters of the model from the experimental data. Finally, we use this methodology to investigate the effect of group size on stinging initiation and alarm pheromone recruitment.
Our findings shed light on how the social context influences stinging behaviour, by quantifying how the alarm pheromone concentration level affects the decision of each bee to sting or not in a given group size. We show that recruitment is curbed as group size grows, thus suggesting that the presence of nestmates is integrated as a negative cue by individual bees. Moreover, the unique integration of exact and statistical methods provides a quantitative characterisation of uncertainty associated to each of the inferred parameters.

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570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

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PETROV, Tatjana, Matej HAJNAL, Julia KLEIN, David ŠAFRÁNEK, Morgane NOUVIAN, 2022. Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence. In: PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science (PLoS). 2022, 18(9), e1010305. ISSN 1553-734X. eISSN 1553-7358. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010305

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  doi={10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010305},
  title={Extracting individual characteristics from population data reveals a negative social effect during honeybee defence},
  number={9},
  volume={18},
  issn={1553-734X},
  journal={PLoS Computational Biology},
  author={Petrov, Tatjana and Hajnal, Matej and Klein, Julia and Šafránek, David and Nouvian, Morgane},
  note={Article Number: e1010305}
}

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