Honey bee colonies typically consist of about 20–40 thousand workers, zero to few thousand males (drones), depending on the time of year, and a single queen, the mother of …
K Ito, W Awano, K Suzuki, Y Hiromi… - …, 1997 - journals.biologists.com
The mushroom body (MB) is an important centre for higher order sensory integration and learning in insects. To analyse the development and organisation of the MB neuropile in …
Visual navigation in ants has long been a focus of experimental study [1–3], but only recently have explicit hypotheses about the underlying neural circuitry been proposed [4]. Indirect …
J Gospocic, EJ Shields, KM Glastad, Y Lin, CA Penick… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Social insects are emerging models to study how gene regulation affects behavior because their colonies comprise individuals with the same genomes but greatly different behavioral …
M Heisenberg - Learning & memory, 1998 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Despite public claims to the contrary, our functional understanding of the brain is still rudimentary. Starting with FJ Gall's Phrenology of the late eighteenth century, one of the …
P Ardin, F Peng, M Mangan… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Ants, like many other animals, use visual memory to follow extended routes through complex environments, but it is unknown how their small brains implement this capability. The …
SE Fahrbach - Annual review of entomology, 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The past decade has produced an explosion of new information on the development, neuroanatomy, and possible functions of the mushroom bodies. This review …
C Groh, J Tautz, W Rössler - Proceedings of the National …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies have shown that the behavioral performance of adult honey bees is influenced by the temperature experienced during pupal development. Here we explore …
A worker honeybee performs tasks within the hive for approximately the first 3 weeks of adult life. After this time, it becomes a forager, flying repeatedly to collect food outside of the hive …