Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions compared with the solitarious phase

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1697, 2010, Pages 3087-3096

  Ott, Swidbert R ^a   Rogers, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Brain scaling; Insect brain; Mushroom body; Phase change; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BRAIN; DESERT; DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFESTYLE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NONLINEARITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM; TRANSFORMATION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 77956939330     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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