Olfactory discrimination ability and odor structure-activity relationships in honeybees

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 429-438

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Galizia, C Giovanni ^b   Giurfa, Martin ^b   Menzel, Randolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ALKANOL; KETONE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRAINING; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BEES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ODORS; PHEROMONES; SMELL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032781942     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.4.429     Document Type: Article

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