Division of labor in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole is associated with distinct subcaste- and age-related patterns of worker brain organization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Muscedere, Mario L ^a,b   Traniello, James F A ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; INSECT; LEARNING STYLE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; ORGANISM COLONY; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE DENTATA; PHEIDOLE MORRISI; PHEIDOLE PILIFERA; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WORKER (INSECT); WORKING MEMORY; AGING; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLISM; MOSAICISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPIL THREAD; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOSAICISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPIL THREADS; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857164621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031618     Document Type: Article

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