Experience-related reorganization of giant synapses in the lateral complex: Potential role in plasticity of the sky-compass pathway in the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 390-404

  Schmitt, Franziska ^a   Stieb, Sara Mae ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b   Rössler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis; Giant synapses; Lateral complex; Sky compass; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANT; APPETITE; BRAIN; COMPOUND EYE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; LEARNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SYNAPSES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84959333474     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22322     Document Type: Article

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