Olfactory learning in the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 196, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 481-490

  Mc Cabe, S I M ^a   Farina, W M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Operant response; Proboscis extension response; Stingless bee; Tetragonisca angustula

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEE; DECISION MAKING; FOOD PREFERENCE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SMELLING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FOOD PREFERENCES; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; REWARD; SMELL;

EID: 77954033948     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0536-2     Document Type: Article

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