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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) and a Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 'Systems Molecular Ethology' from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. T.U. was the recipient of a Grant-Aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.

1. Preparazione di singole colonie-coorte <ol><li> Preparare tre colonie di api per la creazione di due colonie singola coorte e per ottenere un numero sufficiente di lavoratori nuovi emersi. <ol><li> Verificare che alcune pupe nelle cellule periferiche innevate nei favi ha occhi marroni e una cuticola pigmentato aprendo i pettini innevate con una pinzetta. Se sono presenti queste pupe in cellule pettine periferici, la maggior parte pupe in tutta la pettini emergerà in circa 1-3 giorni. </li><li> Successivamente, rac...

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Preparazione delle colonie singola coorte Qui abbiamo descritto il protocollo utilizzato nel nostro studio precedente 16 per preparare colonie singola coorte per l&#39;analisi di HPG fisiologia associata con lo spostamento nel ruolo di api operaie. Api bottinatrici infermiere e precoci che soddisfacevano i criteri descritti nelle procedure di 1.6-1.7 e la figura 2 sono stati osservati nelle colonie singolo di coorte (Tabella 1). Le fotografie in <...

L&#39;ape europea, Apis mellifera, è un insetto eusocial con una società altamente organizzata 1. Api operaie (casta lavoro) sono impegnati in varie attività per mantenere l&#39;attività delle colonie, e questi compiti cambiano a seconda dell&#39;età del lavoratore api dopo eclosion, che viene indicato come divisione relativa all&#39;età del lavoro 2-4. Lavoratori giovani (&lt;13 giorni) si prendono cura della nidiata nell&#39;alveare secernendo pappa reale (api nutrici), mentre i lavoratori più anziani (&gt; 15 giorni) raccolgono il nettare e il polline di fuori dell&#39;alveare (raccoglitori) 2-4. La fisiologia dei lavoratori cambia in associazione con questo spostamento ruolo. Ad esempio, la funzione delle ghiandole ipofaringee (HPGs), accoppiato ghiandole esocrine situati nella testa, i cambiamenti in associazione con il passaggio da ruolo infermieristico a foraggiare 2,5. HPGs infermiera ape sintetizzano principalmente principali proteine ​​pappa reale, che sono i principali componenti di latte api. D&#39;altra parte, HPGs falciatrici principalmentesintetizzare enzimi carboidrati metabolizzare, come α-glucosidasi III, per elaborare nettare miele convertendo saccarosio in glucosio e fruttosio. I nostri studi precedenti hanno rivelato che l&#39;espressione di mrjp2, che codifica per una proteina importante pappa reale, e Hbg3, che codifica α-glucosidasi III, i cambiamenti durante il turno ruolo di 6-9. Per determinare se i cambiamenti fisiologici nei tessuti lavoratore, compresi i HPGs, è associato con lo spostamento ruolo o con l&#39;età dei lavoratori, sarebbe utile per manipolare la composizione della popolazione di una colonia di api, ad esempio per preparare singolo coorte colonie in cui i lavoratori di quasi la stessa età di eseguire diversi compiti 10,11. Robinson et al. (1989) ha descritto un metodo per stabilire un singolo-coorte colonia 10. colonie singola coorte inizialmente comprendono una regina e vecchi operai 0-2 al giorno. Alcuni giorni dopo aver stabilito le colonie, i lavoratori di almost la stessa età assumere compiti diversi. Alcuni lavoratori svolgono compiti di cura, come nelle colonie tipiche, mentre altri lavoratori eseguire le attività di foraggiamento prima del solito e sono quindi chiamati raccoglitori precoci. Il confronto di espressione genica tra api nutrici e raccoglitori precoci potrebbero fornire informazioni utili sulla fisiologia di ruolo associata dei tessuti dei lavoratori 12-16. Qui, descriviamo un protocollo dettagliato per la preparazione di colonie singola coorte per l&#39;analisi della fisiologia di ruolo e / o età-associate di HPGs 16. Abbiamo anche descrivere brevemente come esaminare l&#39;espressione genica di mrjp2 e Hbg3 da reazione a catena della polimerasi di trascrizione inversa-quantitativa (RT-PCR) per valutare HPG fisiologia. Oltre all&#39;analisi della fisiologia dei lavoratori nelle colonie singola coorte, l&#39;esame del sistema endocrino è importante per analizzare i meccanismi di regolazione di ruolo associata la fisiologia dei lavoratori. ormone giovanile (JH), che viene known come l&#39;ormone &#39;status quo&#39; in larve di insetti, accelera lo spostamento nel ruolo da infermieristico per l&#39;alimentazione delle api operaie a 11. Inoltre, ecdysone, che è conosciuto come l&#39;ormone della muta durante la metamorfosi, potrebbe essere coinvolto nel passaggio ruolo di geni che codificano per molecole di segnalazione ecdysone sono espressi nei corpi di funghi, un più alto centro del cervello operaio 17-19. Pertanto, abbiamo anche descritto il protocollo dettagliato utilizzato nel nostro studio precedente 16 per trattare i lavoratori con 20E, che è una forma attiva di ecdysone e metoprene, un analogo JH, per l&#39;analisi degli effetti del sistema endocrino sulla HPG fisiologia (espressione mrjp2 e Hbg3).

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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:231px;">UNIPOSCA</td>
			<td style="width:120px;">Mitsubishi pencil</td>
			<td style="width:91px;">PC-5M</td>
			<td style="width:327px;">Marker pen for the application of marks to bees&#160;&#160;</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">20-hydroxyecdysone</td>
			<td>Sigma Aldrich</td>
			<td>H5142</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Methoprene</td>
			<td>Sigma Aldrich</td>
			<td>33375</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Breeding case insect</td>
			<td>IRIS OHYAMA</td>
			<td>CP-SS</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">Electromotion mixier&#160;</td>
			<td>ISO</td>
			<td>23M-R25</td>
			<td>homogenization of tissue</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">TRIZol Reagent</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>15596-026</td>
			<td>the reagent for total RNA extraction</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">DNase I&#160;</td>
			<td>Takara</td>
			<td>2270A</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">PrimeScript RT reagent kit</td>
			<td>Takara</td>
			<td>RR037A</td>
			<td>the reagent for reverse transcription</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">SYBR Premix ExTaq II</td>
			<td>Takara</td>
			<td>RR820A</td>
			<td>the reagent for real-time PCR</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">LightCycle 1.2 Instrument</td>
			<td>Roche</td>
			<td>12011468001</td>
			<td>the instrument for real-time PCR</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;">LightCycle Capillaries (20&#956;l)</td>
			<td>Roche</td>
			<td>4929292001</td>
			<td>the material for real-time PCR</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
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preparation of single-cohort colonies and hormone treatment of worker honeybees to analyze physiology associated with role and/or endocrine system

Honeybee workers are engaged in various tasks related to maintaining colony activity. The tasks of the workers change according to their age (age-related division of labor). Young workers are engaged in nursing the brood (nurse bees), while older workers are engaged in foraging for nectar and pollen (foragers). The physiology of the workers changes in association with this role shift. For example, the main function of the hypopharyngeal glands (HPGs) changes from the secretion of major royal jelly proteins (MRJPs) to the secretion of carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes. Because worker tasks change as the workers age in typical colonies, it is difficult to discriminate the physiological changes that occur with aging from those that occur with the role shift. To study the physiological changes in worker tissues, including the HPGs, in association with the role shift, it would be useful to manipulate the honeybee colony population by preparing single-cohort colonies in which workers of almost the same age perform different tasks. Here we describe a detailed protocol for preparing single-cohort colonies for this analysis. Six to eight days after single-cohort colony preparation, precocious foragers that perform foraging tasks earlier than usual appear in the colony. Representative results indicated role-associated changes in HPG gene expression, suggesting role-associated HPG function. In addition to manipulating the colony population, analysis of the endocrine system is important for investigating role-associated physiology. Here, we also describe a detailed protocol for treating workers with 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E), an active form of ecdysone, and methoprene, a juvenile hormone analogue. The survival rate of treated bees was sufficient to examine gene expression in the HPGs. Gene expression changes were observed in response to 20E- and/or methoprene-treatment, suggesting that hormone treatments induce physiological changes of the HPGs. The protocol for hormone treatment described here is appropriate for examining hormonal effects on worker physiology.

Una panoramica del protocollo per la preparazione di colonie singola coorte è illustrata nella Figura 1A. Time-corso di esperimenti da preparare colonie singola coorte di assaggiare collezione è mostrato in Figura 1B. I lavoratori che hanno soddisfatto i criteri di comportamento per il comportamento di cura o comportamento alimentare sono stati raccolti da colonie singola coorte, e lo sviluppo HPG è stata stimata in questi lavoratori tabella 1...

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Preparation of Single-cohort Colonies and Hormone Treatment of Worker Honeybees to Analyze Physiology Associated with Role and/or Endocrine System

Qui si descrive il nostro protocollo dettagliato per la preparazione di colonie di api singola coorte - uno strumento utile per analizzare la fisiologia dei lavoratori di ruolo associati. Descriviamo anche protocolli dettagliati per il trattamento di lavoratori con ormone giovanile e ecdysone per valutare il coinvolgimento di questi ormoni nella regolazione del comportamento dei lavoratori e / o la fisiologia.

Preparazione di singole colonie-coorte e trattamento ormonale di lavoratore api per analizzare Fisiologia associati con il ruolo e / o sistema endocrino

Honeybee workers are engaged in various tasks related to maintaining colony activity. The tasks of the workers change according to their age (age-related ...

The overall goal of these procedures is to examine the physiology of worker honeybees in association with the workers'role and the status of their endocrine system. It's a method which has been widely used for the analysis of worker behavior, can also help answer key questions about the relationship between physiology and the role of worker honeybees. The main advantage of this technique is that it is relatively easy to perform.To create two single-cohort colonies, begin with three standard colonies and collect newly-emerged worker bees from each of the three. Using tweezers, regularly inspect the colonies for the appearance of puby in the capped peripheral cells with brown eyes and pigmented cuticles. Once found, most of the puby will emerge in the next few days.Then brush the adults off the combs and remove the combs from the colony. Combine one such comb from each of the three colonies into an empty nuclear hive box. Establish two such hive boxes and incubate them at 33 degrees Celsius with a relative humidity of at least 60%Over the next three days, collect about 3, 000 newly-emerged workers from each new hive box.To approximate the number of bees in each collection, weigh five randomly selected newly-emerged workers and use their average mass compared to the mass of the collected workers to estimate the number of bees. Prepare new hive boxes with a comb that is loaded with honey and pollen from an unmanipulated colony and another comb that is empty. Next, label the thoraxes of approximately 900 workers in each new colony using water-based poster paint markers.Then transfer the collection of worker bees into these new hive boxes and add one queen. Six to eight days after setting up the single-cohort colonies, collect some of their nurse bees and precocious foragers for analysis. To collect the nurse bees, use tweezers to select bees that put their heads into comb cells to care for the brood.Pick them up by the thorax. To collect foragers, use an insect net to capture workers that return to their hives with pollen loads on their hind legs. To classify the HPGs of honeybees, transfer a collection of 10 to 15 bees to an insect cage and anesthetize them at four degrees Celsius for 10 to 15 minutes until the bees cannot fly or walk.Then transfer the bees onto ice to cool them into a completely anesthetized state after about five minutes. Then leave the bees on ice until needed. Now, dissect their heads from their bodies with scissors and tweezers.In a Petri dish, fix the heads into dental wax using insect pins. To do this, use two pins inserted into the base of the antennae. Now, soak the fixed heads in insect saline and transfer the dish to a stereoscope.Using fine tweezers and a surgical knife, remove the anterior cuticle from the head to access the areas around the brain. Next, remove the white membranous tracheal tissue under the cuticle to expose the HPGs. Then dissect the HPGs from the head by slowing pulling them out using tweezers.Classify the HPGs with large and circular aseni developed and consider them to be from nurse bees. Classify HPGs with small and distorted aseni as shrunken and consider these to come from forager bees. Classify HPGs corresponding to neither developed nor shrunken as intermediate.Use the developed and shrunken HPGs for RNA extraction to compare their gene expression. Collect nurse bees from typical colonies as previously described. Anesthetize the nurse bees at four degrees Celsius for about 30 minutes.Then using tweezers, immobilize the bees on dental wax on a Petri dish. Once immobilized, inject the heads of the nurse bees with one microliter of 20E solution. To do this, use a calibrated capillary micropipette.Connect the injection tip to a rubber tube and connect the 200 microliter micropipette tip to the opposite end of the tube. Next, load one microliter of 20E solution onto a piece of parafilm. Then use mouth aspiration to draw the solution into the injection tip.Next, insert the injection tip into the base of the antennae and inject the solution by exhaling on the tube. Alternatively, use an automated injection machine if available. Rear the injected bees in insect cages at 35 degrees Celsius under dark and humid conditions.Include honey water for nourishment and track survivorship as needed. Collect combs containing puby from a colony and incubate them at 35 degrees Celsius with 60%or more relative humidity for up to one day. Collect the newly-emerged bees from the combs and apply paint marks to their thoraxes using poster paint.Then return these bees to their colonies. After six days, collect the painted workers from the colonies and anesthetize them at four degrees Celsius for 30 minutes. Once anesthetized, immobilize the bees using tweezers and dental wax as previously described.Then apply one to five microliters of methoprene and acetone onto their heads using a micropipette resistant to acetone. Rear the bees in cages as previously described. If a high mortality is observed, reduce the volume of acetone to one microliter.Workers that satisfy the behavioral criteria for nursing behavior or foraging behavior were collected from single-cohort colonies and their HPG development was estimated. Based on the HPG RNA extractions and quantitative RTPCR, expression of MRJP2 was enriched in nurse bees and Hbg3 was enriched in precocious foragers. Selected workers were injected with 20E and surviving bees were counted.Seven days after injection, approximately 60%to 80%of injected bees were alive. The control injection had similar results. Quantitative RTPCR analysis show that the 20E injection decreased expression of MRJP2 in the HPGs.The same occurred with Hbg3 in the HPGs. In addition to 20E, the effect of topical methoprene application on MRJP2 and Hbg3 expression in the HPGs was examined. After topical application, most bees survived to seven days.RNA harvested from these survivors show that application of methoprene inhibited the expression of MRJP2 and enhanced the expression of Hbg3. After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to prepare single-cohort colonies and treat the bees with hormone in order to analyze the worker physiology associated with roles and endocrine system. Once mastered, the and the classification of HPG can be done in five minutes if it is performed properly.While attempting the injection for hormone solution, it's important to remember to minimize the damage of bees by anesthesia and injection in order to keep bees alive when reared. Don't forget that working with honeybees can be hazardous and precautions such as wearing bee suits and gloves should always be taken while performing collection of bees and manipulation of colonies.

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