Honey bees as a model for vision, perception, and cognition

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2010, Pages 267-284

  Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Bee; Color vision; Counting; Maze learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; COMPOUND EYE; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77449119602     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.010908.164537     Document Type: Review

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