Taste perception in honey bees

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 675-692

  de Brito Sanchez, Maria Gabriela ^a  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Central processing of taste; Gustation; Gustatory receptors; Honeybee; Insect; Peripheral taste detection; Subesophageal ganglion; Taste

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BITTER TASTE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; INSECT GENOME; MECHANORECEPTOR; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUTH MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SENSILLUM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BEES; TASTE; TASTE BUDS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 80053203350     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr040     Document Type: Article

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