Honeybees (Apis mellifera) learn to discriminate the smell of organic compounds from their respective deuterated isotopomers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1778, 2014, Pages

  Gronenberg, Wulfila ^a   Raikhelkar, Ajay ^a   Abshire, Eric ^a   Stevens, Jennifer ^a   Epstein, Eric ^a   Loyola, Karin ^a   Rauscher, Michael ^a   Buchmann, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential conditioning; Proboscis extension reflex; Vibration hypothesis of olfaction

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

DEUTERIUM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ODOR; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; VIBRATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DIFFERENTIAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBOSCIS EXTENSION REFLEX; VIBRATION HYPOTHESIS OF OLFACTION;

DIFFERENTIAL CONDITIONING; PROBOSCIS EXTENSION REFLEX; VIBRATION HYPOTHESIS OF OLFACTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; LEARNING; ODORS; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84902683159     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3089     Document Type: Article

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