Modality-specific segregation of input to ant mushroom bodies

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-95

  Gronenberg, Wulfila ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative morphology; Hymenoptera; Insect brain; Neuroanatomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; HYMENOPTERA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAIN; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NEUROPIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APOIDEA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CALYX; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PONERINI;

EID: 0032869775     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006615     Document Type: Article

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