The parasitic mite Varroa destructor affects non-associative learning in honey bee foragers, Apis mellifera L.

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 363-370

  Kralj, Jasna ^a,b   Brockmann, Axel ^c,d   Fuchs, Stefan ^b   Tautz, Jürgen ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Habituation; Learning; Sensitization; Varroa destructor

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HABITUATION; HONEY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEARNING; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HONEY; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LEARNING; MITES; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 33847221505     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0192-8     Document Type: Article

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