Detection of neural activity in the brains of japanese honeybee workers during the formation of a "Hot defensive bee ball"

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ugajin, Atsushi ^a   Kiya, Taketoshi ^b   Kunieda, Takekazu ^a   Ono, Masato ^c   Yoshida, Tadaharu ^c   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; ISOPENTYL ACETATE; PENTANOL; PHEROMONE;

ACKS GENE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HONEYBEE; JAPANESE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; SEIZURE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BEE; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; JAPAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TEMPERATURE; WASP;

ANIMALIA; APIS CERANA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; JAPONICA; VESPA MANDARINIA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INSECT PROTEINS; JAPAN; PENTANOLS; PHEROMONES; SEIZURES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; WASPS;

EID: 84858259323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032902     Document Type: Article

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