Visual experience and age affect synaptic organization in the mushroom bodies of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 408-423

  Stieb, Sara Mae ^a   Muenz, Thomas Sebastian ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b   Rössler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavioral maturation; Cataglyphis; Microglomeruli; Mushroom bodies; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

AGING; ANT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FORAGER; LEARNING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIP; MEMORY; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SMELLING;

EID: 77950637879     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20785     Document Type: Article

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