Modality-specific long-term memory enhancement in Heliconius butterflies

How animals perceive, process and respond to environmental cues is tightly tuned to species-specific ecological demands and reflected by the structure of neural systems. In the Neotropical butterflies, , the mushroom bodies, insect learning and memory centres are significantly expanded compared with...

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Vydané v:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences Ročník 380; číslo 1929; s. 20240119
Hlavní autori: Hodge, Elizabeth A, Alcalde Anton, Amaia, Bestea, Louise, Hernández, Greta, Margereth Aguilar, Jane, Farnworth, Max S, Dalbosco Dell'Aglio, Denise, McMillan, W Owen, Montgomery, Stephen H
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: England 26.06.2025
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Animals
Butterflies - physiology
Cues
Memory, Long-Term
Olfactory Perception
Smell
Species Specificity
Visual Perception
vision
olfaction
learning
Heliconiini
associative memory
mushroom body
ISSN:1471-2970, 1471-2970
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Shrnutí:How animals perceive, process and respond to environmental cues is tightly tuned to species-specific ecological demands and reflected by the structure of neural systems. In the Neotropical butterflies, , the mushroom bodies, insect learning and memory centres are significantly expanded compared with their closest relatives. This expansion coincided with the evolution of a novel diet of pollen and the ability to learn spatial foraging routes. Previous research has shown that have more accurate long-term visual memory than other Heliconiini. Here, we test whether this enhanced memory stability is specific to visual contexts by conducting a long-term olfactory memory assay in two species and two outgroup species. We found no difference in long-term olfactory memory between and outgroup Heliconiini, and combining data from olfactory and visual memory trials confirmed a modality-specific improvement in memory recall in . Tests of how Heliconiini species prioritize olfactory and visual cues when presented in conflict show no consistent pattern, suggesting that variation in memory stability is not explained by inter-specific differences in attentiveness to sensory cues. Our data provide a rare case where memory performance has been compared across species and sensory modalities to identify evidence of a modality-specific shift.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Selection shapes diverse animal minds'.
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ISSN:1471-2970
1471-2970
DOI:10.1098/rstb.2024.0119