Cholinergic pesticides cause mushroom body neuronal inactivation in honeybees

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Palmer, Mary J ^a   Moffat, Christopher ^a   Saranzewa, Nastja ^a   Harvey, Jenni ^a   Wright, Geraldine A ^b   Connolly, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARICIDE; CLOTHIANIDIN; IMIDACLOPRID; NICOTINIC AGENT; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HONEYBEE; INHIBITION; MUSHROOM; NEUROLOGY; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEPOLARIZATION; HONEYBEE; MUSHROOM BODY; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; COUMAPHOS; IMIDAZOLES; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONS; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES;

APIS MELLIFERA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84875910463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2648     Document Type: Article

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