Learning and memory in workers reared by nutritionally stressed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 609-616

  Mattila, Heather R ^a   Smith, Brian H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral assays; Conditioned learning; Honey bee workers; Latent inhibition; Memory; Nutritional stress; PER reflex; Pollen diet; Sucrose response thresholds

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORGANISM COLONY; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SMELLING; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLLEN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 56249137526     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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