Natural variation in learning and memory dynamics studied by artificial selection on learning rate in parasitic wasps

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 325-333

  van den Berg, Michaël ^a   Duivenvoorde, Loes ^a   Wang, Guohong ^a,c   Tribuhl, Silja ^a   Bukovinszky, Tibor ^a,b   Vet, Louise E M ^a,b   Dicke, Marcel ^a   Smid, Hans M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia resistant memory; Cotesia; Insect; Learning; Long term memory

Indexed keywords

INHIBITOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; NATURAL SELECTION; PROTEIN; WASP;

ANIMALIA; COTESIA; COTESIA GLOMERATA; COTESIA RUBECULA; HEXAPODA; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 78650226532     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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