Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius)
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Resumo: | Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius). During nest excavation, leaf-cutting ant workers undergo reduction in their body reserve, particularly carbohydrates. In order to estimate the energetic cost of digging, groups of 30 workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens were sealed in a hermetic chamber for 24, 48 and 72 hours, with and without soil for digging, and had the CO2 concentration measured using respirometric chambers as well as volume of soil excavated (g). As expected, the worker groups that carried out soil excavation expelled more carbon dioxide than the groups that did not excavate. Therefore, a worker with body mass of 9.65 ± 1.50 mg dug in average 0.85 ± 0.27 g of soil for 24 hours, consuming ca. 0.58 ± 0.23 J. In this study, we calculate that the energetic cost of excavation per worker per day in the experimental set-up was ca. 0.58 J. |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius)Attinicarbon dioxideInsectaFormicidaenestEnergetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius). During nest excavation, leaf-cutting ant workers undergo reduction in their body reserve, particularly carbohydrates. In order to estimate the energetic cost of digging, groups of 30 workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens were sealed in a hermetic chamber for 24, 48 and 72 hours, with and without soil for digging, and had the CO2 concentration measured using respirometric chambers as well as volume of soil excavated (g). As expected, the worker groups that carried out soil excavation expelled more carbon dioxide than the groups that did not excavate. Therefore, a worker with body mass of 9.65 ± 1.50 mg dug in average 0.85 ± 0.27 g of soil for 24 hours, consuming ca. 0.58 ± 0.23 J. In this study, we calculate that the energetic cost of excavation per worker per day in the experimental set-up was ca. 0.58 J.Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Instituto de Ciências BiológicasUNESP Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas Departamento de Produção VegetalUNESP Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas Departamento de Produção VegetalSociedade Brasileira de EntomologiaUniversidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Camargo, Roberto Da SilvaLopes, Juliane F. S.Forti, Luiz Carlos [UNESP]2014-10-01T13:08:51Z2014-10-01T13:08:51Z2013-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article401-404application/pdfhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0085-56262013005000035Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia, v. 57, n. 4, p. 401-404, 2013.0085-5626http://hdl.handle.net/11449/11013510.1590/S0085-56262013005000035S0085-56262013000400009WOS:000329938400009S0085-56262013000400009.pdf6187684824965648SciELOreponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPengRevista Brasileira de Entomologia0.8800,406info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2024-04-30T15:55:01Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/110135Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestopendoar:29462024-08-05T14:38:51.200445Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) Camargo, Roberto Da Silva Attini carbon dioxide Insecta Formicidae nest |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius) |
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Camargo, Roberto Da Silva |
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Camargo, Roberto Da Silva Lopes, Juliane F. S. Forti, Luiz Carlos [UNESP] |
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Lopes, Juliane F. S. Forti, Luiz Carlos [UNESP] |
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Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) |
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Camargo, Roberto Da Silva Lopes, Juliane F. S. Forti, Luiz Carlos [UNESP] |
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Attini carbon dioxide Insecta Formicidae nest |
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Attini carbon dioxide Insecta Formicidae nest |
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Energetic cost of digging behavior in workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens (Fabricius). During nest excavation, leaf-cutting ant workers undergo reduction in their body reserve, particularly carbohydrates. In order to estimate the energetic cost of digging, groups of 30 workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens were sealed in a hermetic chamber for 24, 48 and 72 hours, with and without soil for digging, and had the CO2 concentration measured using respirometric chambers as well as volume of soil excavated (g). As expected, the worker groups that carried out soil excavation expelled more carbon dioxide than the groups that did not excavate. Therefore, a worker with body mass of 9.65 ± 1.50 mg dug in average 0.85 ± 0.27 g of soil for 24 hours, consuming ca. 0.58 ± 0.23 J. In this study, we calculate that the energetic cost of excavation per worker per day in the experimental set-up was ca. 0.58 J. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0085-56262013005000035 Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia, v. 57, n. 4, p. 401-404, 2013. 0085-5626 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110135 10.1590/S0085-56262013005000035 S0085-56262013000400009 WOS:000329938400009 S0085-56262013000400009.pdf 6187684824965648 |
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Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia, v. 57, n. 4, p. 401-404, 2013. 0085-5626 10.1590/S0085-56262013005000035 S0085-56262013000400009 WOS:000329938400009 S0085-56262013000400009.pdf 6187684824965648 |
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