Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets
Sympatric-related species often exhibit resource partitioning. This can occur through diferent mechanisms, such as behavioral, morphological, and sensory variations, leading to qualitative, temporal, or spatial diferences in resource exploitation, such as consuming diferent types of food. Sensory-ba...
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| author | Masciocchi, Maite Mattiacci, Analia Villacide, Jose Maria Buteler, Micaela Porrino, Agustina Paula Martinez, Andres |
| author_browse | Buteler, Micaela Martinez, Andres Masciocchi, Maite Mattiacci, Analia Porrino, Agustina Paula Villacide, Jose Maria |
| author_facet | Masciocchi, Maite Mattiacci, Analia Villacide, Jose Maria Buteler, Micaela Porrino, Agustina Paula Martinez, Andres |
| author_sort | Masciocchi, Maite |
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| description | Sympatric-related species often exhibit resource partitioning. This can occur through diferent mechanisms, such as behavioral, morphological, and sensory variations, leading to qualitative, temporal, or spatial diferences in resource exploitation, such as consuming diferent types of food. Sensory-based niche partitioning could be the underlying mechanism through which closely related species efectively reduce niche overlap. Here we ask whether variations in sensory responses to carbohydrates could refect diferences in the foraging patterns of two Vespula species present in Patagonia. For this, we established (i) the response thresholds toward carbohydrate solutions of foraging V. germanica and V. vulgaris in the laboratory, (ii) the sugar concentration of foraged carbohydrates in the feld, and (iii) possible efects of incoming sugar concentration and performance at individual and colony levels. Results indicate a higher sucrose response threshold in V. germanica than V. vulgaris. Field results indicate that higher carbohydrate concentrations foraged by V. germanica, with 57% of V. germanica foragers returning with concentrations above 50% w/w, while only 23% of V. vulgaris foragers did so. These diferences in sucrose sensitivity and foraging patterns positively correlate with colony size, irrespective of the species. Our results suggest that competition could be reduced in these closely related invasive social wasp species through sensory diferences in their sugar perception levels, which would lead to them foraging diferent carbohydrate sources. This study suggests that sensory niche partitioning could promote species coexistence in these social wasps. |
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| spelling | INTA162682023-12-18T17:59:16Z Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets Masciocchi, Maite Mattiacci, Analia Villacide, Jose Maria Buteler, Micaela Porrino, Agustina Paula Martinez, Andres Reconocimiento de Patrones Pattern Recognition Azúcar Sugar Alimentación de los Animales Animal Feeding Vespula Germanica Avispa Chaqueta Amarilla Yellowjackets Patagonia, Argentina Nichos Sensoriales Sympatric-related species often exhibit resource partitioning. This can occur through diferent mechanisms, such as behavioral, morphological, and sensory variations, leading to qualitative, temporal, or spatial diferences in resource exploitation, such as consuming diferent types of food. Sensory-based niche partitioning could be the underlying mechanism through which closely related species efectively reduce niche overlap. Here we ask whether variations in sensory responses to carbohydrates could refect diferences in the foraging patterns of two Vespula species present in Patagonia. For this, we established (i) the response thresholds toward carbohydrate solutions of foraging V. germanica and V. vulgaris in the laboratory, (ii) the sugar concentration of foraged carbohydrates in the feld, and (iii) possible efects of incoming sugar concentration and performance at individual and colony levels. Results indicate a higher sucrose response threshold in V. germanica than V. vulgaris. Field results indicate that higher carbohydrate concentrations foraged by V. germanica, with 57% of V. germanica foragers returning with concentrations above 50% w/w, while only 23% of V. vulgaris foragers did so. These diferences in sucrose sensitivity and foraging patterns positively correlate with colony size, irrespective of the species. Our results suggest that competition could be reduced in these closely related invasive social wasp species through sensory diferences in their sugar perception levels, which would lead to them foraging diferent carbohydrate sources. This study suggests that sensory niche partitioning could promote species coexistence in these social wasps. EEA Bariloche Fil: Masciocchi, Maite. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Masciocchi, Maite. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Mattiacci, Analia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Mattiacci, Analia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Villacide, Jose Maria. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Villacide, Jose Maria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Buteler, Micaela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA); Argentina Fil: Buteler, Micaela. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA); Argentina Fil: Porrino, Agustina Paula. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Porrino, Agustina Paula. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Martinez, Andres. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina Fil: Martinez, Andres. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB). Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos; Argentina 2023-12-18T17:55:30Z 2023-12-18T17:55:30Z 2023-11 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16268 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47819-w 2045-2322 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47819-w eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Patagonia .......... (general region) (World, South America, Argentina) 7016766 Nature Scientific Reports 13 : Article number: 20448 (2023) |
| spellingShingle | Reconocimiento de Patrones Pattern Recognition Azúcar Sugar Alimentación de los Animales Animal Feeding Vespula Germanica Avispa Chaqueta Amarilla Yellowjackets Patagonia, Argentina Nichos Sensoriales Masciocchi, Maite Mattiacci, Analia Villacide, Jose Maria Buteler, Micaela Porrino, Agustina Paula Martinez, Andres Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| title | Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| title_full | Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| title_fullStr | Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| title_short | Sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| title_sort | sugar responsiveness could determine foraging patterns in yellowjackets |
| topic | Reconocimiento de Patrones Pattern Recognition Azúcar Sugar Alimentación de los Animales Animal Feeding Vespula Germanica Avispa Chaqueta Amarilla Yellowjackets Patagonia, Argentina Nichos Sensoriales |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/16268 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47819-w https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47819-w |
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