In the laboratory and during free-flight: Old honey bees reveal learning and extinction deficits that mirror mammalian functional decline

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Münch, Daniel ^a   Baker, Nicholas ^b   Kreibich, Claus D ^a   Bråten, Anders T ^a   Amdam, Gro V ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; LABORATORY TEST; LEARNING; MAMMAL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BEE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; LEARNING; SMELL;

EID: 78149433909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013504     Document Type: Article

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