Lateralization of Olfaction in the Honeybee Apis mellifera

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1471-1476

  Letzkus, Pinar ^a   Ribi, Willi A ^b   Wood, Jeff T ^c   Zhu, Hong ^a   Zhang, Shao Wu ^a   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Universitaet fuer Humanwissenschaften im Fuerstentum Liechtenstein   (Liechtenstein)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; CYTOLOGY; FLAGELLUM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; STIMULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FLAGELLA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LEARNING; REWARD; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746216132     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.05.060     Document Type: Article

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