Increased neural activity of a mushroom body neuron subtype in the brains of forager honeybees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Kiya, Taketoshi ^a   Kunieda, Takekazu ^a   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; KAKUSEI PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HONEYBEE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MUSHROOM BODY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY MEMORY; ANIMAL; BEE; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

APIS MELLIFERA; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NEURONS;

EID: 48649099948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000371     Document Type: Article

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