Hygienic behavior of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) is independent of sucrose responsiveness and foraging ontogeny

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-397

  Goode, Katarzyna ^a   Huber, Zachary ^a   Mesce, Karen A ^a   Spivak, Marla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Biogenic amines; Neuromodulation; Octopamine; Olfactory sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC AMINE; OCTOPAMINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HEREDITY; HONEYBEE; HYGIENE; LEARNING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; OCTOPAMINE; PHENOTYPE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; SUCROSE;

EID: 32544458134     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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