Toxic but drank: Gustatory aversive compounds induce post-ingestional malaise in harnessed honeybees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Ayestaran, Ainara ^a,b   Giurfa, Martin ^a,b   de Brito Sanchez, Maŕa Gabriela ^a,b  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALIN; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; NONANOL; QUININE; SALICIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MALAISE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURVIVAL TIME; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; ANIMAL; BEE; FATIGUE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE;

APOIDEA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BEES; FATIGUE; TASTE;

EID: 78149422495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015000     Document Type: Article

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