Visual experience affects both behavioral and neuronal aspects in the individual life history of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 729-742

  Stieb, Sara Mae ^a   Hellwig, Anna ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b   Rössler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity; Microglomeruli; Mushroom body; Orientation runs; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; LEARNING; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859488408     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20982     Document Type: Article

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