Dance type and flight parameters are associated with different mushroom body neural activities in worker honeybee brains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Kiya, Taketoshi ^a   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLIGHT; FORAGER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HONEYBEE; KAKUSEI GENE; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; VISUAL INFORMATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLYING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HONEY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TIME;

APIS MELLIFERA; BASIDIOMYCOTA;

INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HONEY; INSECT PROTEINS; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955588325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019301     Document Type: Article

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