Limits on Volume Changes in the Mushroom Bodies of the Honey Bee Brain

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-151

  Fahrbach, Susan E ^a   Farris, Sarah M ^b   Sullivan, Joseph P ^c   Robinson, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Corpora pedunculata; Juvenile hormone; Kenyon cells

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSHROOM BODY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORPORA ALLATA; JUVENILE HORMONES; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEUROPIL;

EID: 0142040174     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.10256     Document Type: Article

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