A new ascending sensory tract to the calyces of the honeybee mushroom body, the subesophageal-calycal tract

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 465, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 168-178

  Schröter, Ulrike ^a   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Confocal microscopy; Mushroom body; Rhodamine dextran; Subesophageal ganglion

Indexed keywords

ANTENNOCEREBRALIS TRACT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC FIBER; GANGLION; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSHROOM BODY; MUSHROOM BODY CALYX; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY PROJECTION NEURON; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBOSCIS; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY TRACT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBESOPHAGEAL CALYCAL TRACT; SUBESOPHAGEAL GANGLION; TONGUE; TRITOCEREBRUM; VISUAL PROJECTION NEURON;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; DEXTRANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RHODAMINES; SENSE ORGANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE;

EID: 0041829232     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10843     Document Type: Article

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