In insects, olfaction plays a crucial role in many behavioral contexts, such as locating food,
sexual partners, and oviposition sites. To successfully perform such behaviors, insects must …

A striking commonality across insects and vertebrates is the recurring presence of parallel
olfactory subsystems, suggesting that such an organization has a highly adaptive value …

Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems.
They play critical roles in ecological food webs, remain devastating agricultural and medical …

Discriminating among individuals and rejecting non-group members is essential for the
evolution and stability of animal societies. Ants are good models for studying recognition …

The honeybee Apis mellifera has been a central insect model in the study of olfactory
perception and learning for more than a century, starting with pioneer work by Karl von …

Here, we present the first analysis of the connectome of a small volume of the Octopus
vulgaris vertical lobe (VL), a brain structure mediating the acquisition of long-term memory in …

Leaf‐cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) express a remarkable size polymorphism across the
two sexual castes (queens and males) but in particular within the worker caste. Worker size …

Trace conditioning is a form of classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus (conditioned
stimulus, CS) is associated with a following appetitive or aversive stimulus (unconditioned …

Leaf-cutting ants employ diverse behavioral strategies for promoting the growth of fungal
cultivars in a structure known as fungus garden. As a nutritionally rich resource for the ants …

This is an exciting time for arthropod neuroanatomists! A wealth of reviews, special issues,
book chapters, and entire book volumes published during the last 10 years shows the …