Friends and foes from an Ant brain's point of view - neuronal correlates of Colony Odors in a social insect

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Brandstaetter, Andreas Simon ^a,c   Rössler, Wolfgang ^a   Kleineidam, Christoph Johannes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOSMIA; ANT; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; INSECT SOCIETY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; ORGANISM COLONY; PREDICTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; BRAIN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CALCIUM; NEURONS; ODORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79959557493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021383     Document Type: Article

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