Serotonin mediates behavioral gregarization underlying swarm formation in desert locusts

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5914, 2009, Pages 627-630

  Anstey, Michael L ^a   Rogers, Stephen M ^a,b   Ott, Swidbert R ^b   Burrows, Malcolm ^b   Simpson, Stephen J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DESERT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LOCUST; MIGRATION; NEUROLOGY; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUND; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SWARMING;

ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LOCUST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

5-HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROWDING; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GRASSHOPPERS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ODORS; PEST CONTROL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 59149089998     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165939     Document Type: Article

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