An alarm pheromone modulates appetitive olfactory learning in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2010, Pages

  Urlacher, Elodie ^a   Francés, Bernard ^a   Giurfa, Martin ^a   Devaud, Jean Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alarm; Honeybee; Insect; Learning; Modulation; Olfactory; Pheromone; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875941724     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00157     Document Type: Article

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