Parasitoidism, not sociality, is associated with the evolution of elaborate mushroom bodies in the brains of hymenopteran insects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1707, 2011, Pages 940-951

  Farris, Sarah M ^a   Schulmeister, Susanne ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain evolution; Learning and memory; Parasitoid

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INSECT; MUSHROOM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ACULEATA; APOCRITA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952337544     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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