Experience-dependent plasticity in the mushroom bodies of the solitary bee Osmia lignaria (Megachilidae)

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-82

  Withers, Ginger S ^a   Day, Nancy F ^a   Talbot, Emily F ^a   Dobson, Heidi E M ^a   Wallace, Christopher S ^a  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bee brain; Foraging; Mushroom body plasticity; Stereology; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; FORAGE; KENYON CELL BODY; MALE; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OSMIA LIGNARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEAD; LEARNING; MALE; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38149046367     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20574     Document Type: Article

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