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CURRENT ZOOLOGY
卷 65, 期 4, 页码 437-446出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz026
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artificial diets; Bombus terrestris; bumble bees; nutritional geometry; rule of compromise
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- CNRS
- Passerelle Grant of the Research Center on Animal Cognition
- CIFRE PhD thesis (CNRS-Koppert)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-16-CE02-0002-01]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-16-CE02-0002] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Animals have evolved foraging strategies to acquire blends of nutrients that maximize fitness traits. In social insects, nutrient regulation is complicated by the fact that few individuals, the foragers, must address the divergent nutritional needs of all colony members simultaneously, including other workers, the reproductives, and the brood. Here we used 3D nutritional geometry design to examine how bumblebee workers regulate their collection of 3 major macronutrients in the presence and absence of brood. We provided small colonies artificial nectars (liquid diets) and pollens (solid diets) varying in their compositions of proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates during 2 weeks. Colonies given a choice between nutritionally complementary diets self-selected foods to reach a target ratio of 71% proteins, 6% carbohydrates, and 23% lipids, irrespective of the presence of brood. When confined to a single nutritionally imbalanced solid diet, colonies without brood regulated lipid collection and over-collected protein relative to this target ratio, whereas colonies with brood regulated both lipid and protein collection. This brood effect on the regulation of nutrient collection by workers suggests that protein levels are critical for larval development. Our results highlight the importance of considering bee nutrition as a multidimensional phenomenon to better assess the effects of environmental impoverishment and malnutrition on population declines.
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