High-throughput olfactory conditioning and memory retention test show variation in Nasonia parasitic wasps

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 879-887

  Hoedjes, K M ^a   Steidle, J L M ^b   Werren, J H ^c   Vet, L E M ^a,d   Smid, H M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Conditioning; Electroantennogram; High throughput; Learning; Memory; Nasonia; Olfactometer; Parasitoid wasp; T maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETER; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); WASPS;

ANIMALIA; NASONIA; NASONIA GIRAULTI; NASONIA LONGICORNIS; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 84867332231     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00823.x     Document Type: Article

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