Response characteristics of vibration-sensitive interneurons related to Johnston's organ in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 515, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-160

  Ai, Hiroyuki ^a   Rybak, Jürgen ^b   Menzel, Randolf ^b   Itoh, Tsunao ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audition; Brain; Dorsal lobe; Indexing terms; Integration; Olfaction; Waggle dance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DORSAL LOBE INTERNEURON 1; DORSAL LOBE INTERNEURON 2; EXCITATION; HEARING; HONEYBEE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JOHNSTON ORGAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIBRATION SENSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BEE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GANGLION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; ODOR; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRATION;

DEXTRAN; DEXTRAN TETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; RHODAMINE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEXTRANS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; ODORS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RHODAMINES; SENSE ORGANS; SMELL; VIBRATION;

EID: 67650291043     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22042     Document Type: Article

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