Morphologic representation of visual and antennal information in the ant brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 412, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 229-240

  Gronenberg, Wulfila ^a   Hölldobler, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative morphology; Insect brain; Mushroom bodies; Neuroanatomy; Optic lobes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTIC LOBE; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0344979754     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990920)412:2<229::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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