Flight restriction prevents associative learning deficits but not changes in brain protein-adduct formation during honeybee ageing

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1322-1332

  Tolfsen, Christina C ^a   Baker, Nicholas ^b   Kreibich, Claus ^a   Amdam, Gro V ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging activity; Gustatory responsiveness; Malondialdehyde; Olfactory conditioning; Oxidative stress; Proboscis extension response; Senescence; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MALONALDEHYDE; NERVE PROTEIN; POLYUBIQUITIN;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; LEARNING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MALONDIALDEHYDE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYUBIQUITIN;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 79955040521     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.049155     Document Type: Article

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