Growth and pruning of mushroom body Kenyon cell dendrites during worker behavioral development in the paper wasp, Polybia aequatorialis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-495

  Jones, Theresa A ^a   Donlan, Nicole A ^a   O'Donnell, Sean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional plasticity; Collar; Eusocial insects; Lip; Space balls; Stereology; Temporal polyethism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANT; ARTICLE; BEE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; DENDRITE; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; FORAGE; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE FIBER; NESTING; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WASP; WORKER (INSECT);

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENDRITES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPIL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WASPS;

EID: 70049114745     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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