Analysis of GABAergic and non-GABAergic neuron activity in the optic lobes of the forager and re-orienting worker honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kiya, Taketoshi ^a,b   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; APIS MELIFERA GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGER; GENE; HONEYBEE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KAKUSEI GENE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC LOBE; UPREGULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; ANIMAL; BEE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; DNA PRIMERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; OPTIC LOBE, NONMAMMALIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77952502726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008833     Document Type: Article

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