Dance type and flight parameters are associated with different mushroom body neural activities in worker honeybee brains.

BACKGROUND: Honeybee foragers can transmit the information concerning the location of food sources to their nestmates using dance communication. We previously used a novel immediate early gene, termed kakusei, to demonstrate that the neural activity of a specific mushroom body (MB) neuron subtype is...

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Main Authors: Taketoshi Kiya, Takeo Kubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3082565?pdf=render