Learning in honey bees with brain lesions: How Partial mushroom-body ablations affect sucrose responsiveness and tactile antennal learning

Animal Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 227-235

  Scheiner, Ricarda ^a   Weiß, Annegret ^a   Malun, Dagmar ^b   Erber, Joachim ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Chemical ablation; Learning; Mushroom bodies; Sucrose reward

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 0000127527     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100710100080     Document Type: Article

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