Brain composition and olfactory learning in honey bees

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 435-443

  Gronenberg, Wulfila ^a   Couvillon, Margaret J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africanized bees; Brain size; Mushroom body

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HONEYBEE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; LEARNING; SMELL;

EID: 77950690923     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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