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Ein Durchbruch auf breiter Front: Die Honigbiene als Versuchstier beim Test auf antivirale Aktivität einer neuen Klasse künstlicher Enzyme

Zahlreiche Viren gefährden die Gesundheit von Pflanzen, Tieren und Menschen und darüber hinaus sind sie eine ständige Bedrohung für die Versorgung des Menschen mit pflanzlichen und tierischen Nahrungsmitteln.

Phänomen Honigbiene

Nicht nur, dass Bienen ein unglaublich interessantes Thema sind, nicht nur, dass die Fotografien von Helga R. Heilmann dieses Buch fast zu einem Bildband machen, sondern auch, dass der Autor es versteht, wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse aus seiner Forschung so aufzubereiten, dass der Laie zu verstehen beginnt, wie Bienen ticken. Und plötzlich fängt man an, die Evolution und sich selbst neu zu begreifen.

144 Pahl, M., Zhu, H., TAUTZ,J. & S.Zhang: Large Scale Homing in Honeybees. PLOS one 2011

132. Gross, H.J., TAUTZ,J, Pahl, M., Si, A., Zhu, H. & S.Zhang: Number-based visual generalisation in the honeybee. PloSOne 4, e4263. doi:10.1371/, 2009

137. Randolt, K., Gimple,O. Geißendörfer,J., Reinders,J., Prusko,C., Müller,M., Albert, S., TAUTZ,J., & H.Beier: Immune-related proteins induced in the hemolymph after aseptic and septic injury differ in honey bee worker larvae and adults.

Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 69, 155-167, 2008

133. Su, S., Cai, F., Si, A., Zhang,S., TAUTZ,J. and S. Chen: East learns from west: Asiatic honeybees can understand the dances of European honeybees. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2365. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002365 2008

The honeybee waggle dance, through which foragers advertise the existence and location of a food source to their hive mates, is acknowledged as the only known form of symbolic communication in an invertebrate. However, the suggestion, that different species of honeybee might possess distinct ‘dialects’ of the waggle dance, remains controversial. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether different species of honeybee can learn from and communicate with each other. This study reports experiments using a mixed-species colony that is composed of the Asiatic bee Apis cerana cerana (Acc), and the European bee Apis mellifera ligustica (Aml). Using video recordings made at an observation hive, we first confirm that Acc and Aml have significantly different dance dialects, even when made to forage in identical environments. When reared in the same colony, these two species are able to communicate with each other: Acc foragers could decode the dances of Aml to successfully locate an...