Deciding to learn: Modulation of learning flights in honeybees, Apis mellifera

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 188, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 725-737

  Wei, C A ^a   Rafalko, S L ^a   Dyer, F C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Honeybee; Learning flight; Navigation; Spatial learning; Turn back and look (TBL)

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FLYING; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LEARNING; SUCROSE;

EID: 0036826593     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0346-2     Document Type: Article

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