Honeybees prefer novel insect-pollinated flower shapes over bird-pollinated flower shapes  

作　　者：Scarlett R. Howard Mani Shrestha Juergen Schramme Jair E. Garcia Aurore AvARGUES-WEBER Andrew D. Greentree Adrian G. DYER 

机构地区：[1]Bio-inspired Digital Sensing (BIDS) Lab, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia [2]Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia [3]institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology (iDn), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz 55122, Germany [4]Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Centre de Biologie Integrative (CBI), Universite de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse 31400, France [5]ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia [6]Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia

出　　处：《Current Zoology》2019年第4期457-465,共9页动物学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Plant-pollinator in teractio ns have a fundame ntal in fluence on flower evolution. Flower color signals are frequently tuned to the visual capabilities of important pollinators such as either bees or birds, but far less is known about whether flower shape in fluences the choices of pollinators. We tested European honeybee Apis mellifera pref ere nces using novel achromatic (gray-scale) images of 12 insect-pollinated and 12 bird-pollinated native Australian flowers in Germany;thus, avoiding in flue nces of color, odor, or prior experie nee. In depende nt bees were tested with a number of parameterized images specifically desig ned to assess pref ere nces for size, shape, brightness, or the number of flower-like shapes prese nt in an image. We show that honeybees have a pref ere nee for visiti ng images of in sect-polli nated flowers and such a pref ere nee is most-likely mediated by holistic in formati on rather than by in dividual image parameters. Our results in dicate an giosperms have evolved flower shapes which in fluence the choice behavior of importa nt pollinators, and thus suggest spatial achromatic flower properties are an important part of visual signaling for plantpollinator in teractions.

关 键 词：ANGIOSPERM Apis MELLIFERA (European honeybee) bird-pollinated flower insect-pollinated POLLINATOR 

分 类 号：Q[生物学]