The bee as a model to investigate brain and behavioural asymmetries

Insects

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-138

  Frasnelli, Elisa ^a   Haase, Albrecht ^a   Rigosi, Elisa ^a   Anfora, Gianfranco ^b   Rogers, Lesley J ^c   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

2 photon microscopy; Behavioural asymmetry; Electroantennography; Lateralization; Learning; Memory recall; PER; Population level; Sensilla; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892502323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/insects5010120     Document Type: Review

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