Honeybees learn odour mixtures via a selection of key odorants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Reinhard, Judith ^a   Sinclair, Michael ^a   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a,b   Claudianos, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE AGENT; BENZALDEHYDE; BENZALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; BETA PINENE; BETA-PINENE; BICYCLO COMPOUND; BUTANOL; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; LIMONENE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SMELLING; ANIMAL; BEE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMISTRY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FLOWER; LONG TERM MEMORY; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

1-BUTANOL; ANIMALS; BEES; BENZALDEHYDES; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CYCLOHEXENES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FLOWERS; MONOTERPENES; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REFLEX; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; TERPENES;

EID: 77949353764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009110     Document Type: Article

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