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A bee-line into learning and memory mechanisms.

scientific article

A glyoxylic acid method for the localization of catecholamines in insect nervous systems.

scientific article published in January 1984

Activity-Dependent Changes to the Brain and Behavior of the Honey Bee,Apis mellifera(L.) ⬇️

scientific article published on September 15, 1997

Age- and behaviour-related changes in the expression of biogenic amine receptor genes in the antennae of honey bees (Apis mellifera).

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Age-related changes in dopamine receptor densities in the brain of the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 9 September 1997

Age-related changes in the behavioural response of honeybees to Apiguard®, a thymol-based treatment used to control the mite Varroa destructor.

scientific article published on 15 July 2011

An atlas and 3-D reconstruction of the antennal lobes in the worker honey bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera : Apidae)

scientific article

Analysis of two D1-like dopamine receptors from the honey bee Apis mellifera reveals agonist-independent activity.

scientific article

Antennae hold a key to Varroa-sensitive hygiene behaviour in honey bees.

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Antennal lobe neurons of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, express a D2-like dopamine receptor in vitro

scientific article published in June 1997

Association of Amine-Receptor DNA Sequence Variants with Associative Learning in the Honeybee

scientific article published on 26 September 2015

Autoradiographic localisation of [3H]-SCH23390 and [3H]-spiperone binding sites in honey bee brain.

scientific article

Biogenic amines in the brain of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published in January 1983

C-type allatostatins mimic stress-related effects of alarm pheromone on honey bee learning and memory recall

scientific article

Changes in brain amine levels associated with the morphological and behavioural development of the worker honeybee

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Changes in responsiveness to allatostatin treatment accompany shifts in stress reactivity in young worker honey bees

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Characterisation of a functional allatotropin receptor in the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera, Apidae).

scientific article

Characterisation of dopamine receptors in insect (Apis mellifera) brain.

scientific article published in January 1996

Characterization of a D2-like dopamine receptor (AmDOP3) in honey bee, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published in August 2005

Chemical detection triggers honey bee defense against a destructive parasitic threat

scientific article published on 25 January 2021

Development of an identified serotonergic neuron in the antennal lobe of the moth and effects of reduction in serotonin during construction of olfactory glomeruli

scientific article published on October 1995

Development of dopamine-immunoreactive neurons associated with the antennal lobes of the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article

Development of dopamine-immunoreactive neurons associated with the antennal lobes of the honey bee,Apis mellifera

Developmental changes in expression patterns of two dopamine receptor genes in mushroom bodies of the honeybee, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published in November 2003

Developmental changes in the density of ionic currents in antennal-lobe neurons of the sphinx moth, Manduca sexta

scientific article published on June 2002

Developmental changes in the electrophysiological properties and response characteristics of Manduca antennal-lobe neurons

scientific article published on June 2002

Developmental expression of a tyramine receptor gene in the brain of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.

scientific article published on February 2005

Distribution of dopamine receptors and dopamine receptor homologs in the brain of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.

scientific article

Dopamine modulation of honey bee (Apis mellifera) antennal-lobe neurons

scientific article

Dopamine receptor activation by honey bee queen pheromone.

scientific article

Dopamine release in mushroom bodies of the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) in response to aversive stimulation

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Enhancement by serotonin of the growth in vitro of antennal lobe neurons of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta

scientific article published on January 1996

Floral usage partitioning and competition between social (Apis mellifera,Bombus terrestris)and solitary bees in New Zealand: Niche partitioning via floral preferences?

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Foraging experience, glomerulus volume, and synapse number: A stereological study of the honey bee antennal lobe.

scientific article published in July 2004

Honey Bee Allatostatins Target Galanin/Somatostatin-Like Receptors and Modulate Learning: A Conserved Function?

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

Honey bee dopamine and octopamine receptors linked to intracellular calcium signaling have a close phylogenetic and pharmacological relationship.

scientific article

Innervation of the intestine in the bivalve mollusc Chione stutchburyi

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

Invertebrate D2 type dopamine receptor exhibits age-based plasticity of expression in the mushroom bodies of the honeybee brain

scientific article published in June 2003

Juvenile hormone enhances aversive learning performance in 2-day old worker honey bees while reducing their attraction to queen mandibular pheromone

scientific article

Manipulating the light/dark cycle: effects on dopamine levels in optic lobes of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) brain

scientific article published on 25 October 2006

Measurements of Chlorpyrifos Levels in Forager Bees and Comparison with Levels that Disrupt Honey Bee Odor-Mediated Learning Under Laboratory Conditions

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Modulatory actions of dopamine and serotonin on insect antennal lobe neurons: insights from studies in vitro

scientific article published on 21 March 2012

Modulatory effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine on voltage-activated currents in cultured antennal lobe neurones of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta

scientific article published on March 1995

Molecular biology of the invertebrate dopamine receptors.

scientific article

Morphology and response characteristics of neurones in the deutocerebrum of the brain in the honeybeeApis mellifera

scientific article (publication date: 1989)

Mushroom bodies of the honeybee brain show cell population-specific plasticity in expression of amine-receptor genes

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

On the front line: quantitative virus dynamics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies along a new expansion front of the parasite Varroa destructor.

scientific article

Peripheral modulation of worker bee responses to queen mandibular pheromone

scientific article

Pharmacological and signalling properties of a D2-like dopamine receptor (Dop3) in Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published on 15 November 2014

Pharmacological dissociation of different forms of synaptic plasticity in the marine mollusc Aplysia

scientific article published in January 1996

Pheromones Acting as Social Signals Modulate Learning in Honeybees

scientific article published in 2013

Plateau potentials in developing antennal-lobe neurons of the moth, Manduca sexta.

scientific article published on 17 November 2004

Queen mandibular pheromone: questions that remain to be resolved

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees

scientific article

Queen pheromone modulates brain dopamine function in worker honey bees

scholarly article

Scaffolding critical thinking in the zone of proximal development

scientific article published in June 2011

Serotonin enhances central olfactory neuron responses to female sex pheromone in the male sphinx moth manduca sexta

scientific article published on October 1999

Serotonin modulation of moth central olfactory neurons.

scientific article published on January 2008

Serotonin-induced changes in the excitability of cultured antennal-lobe neurons of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Social modulation of stress reactivity and learning in young worker honey bees

scientific article

Specific Cues Associated With Honey Bee Social Defence against Varroa destructor Infested Brood.

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Stereological analysis reveals striking differences in the structural plasticity of two readily identifiable glomeruli in the antennal lobes of the adult worker honeybee.

scientific article published in October 2002

Steroid hormone (20-hydroxyecdysone) modulates the acquisition of aversive olfactory memories in pollen forager honeybees.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Structural plasticity of identified glomeruli in the antennal lobes of the adult worker honey bee.

scientific article published in February 1996

The New Zealand experience of varroa invasion highlights research opportunities for Australia. ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 July 2015

The Nutrient Composition of Honeybee-Collected Pollen in Otago, New Zealand

scientific article published in January 1990

The effects of biogenic amines on conditioned and unconditioned responses to olfactory stimuli in the honeybeeApis mellifera

The effects of queenlessness on the maturation of the honey bee olfactory system

scientific article published in March 1998

The influence of endogenous dopamine levels on the density of [3H]SCH23390-binding sites in the brain of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.

scientific article published in February 2000

The power of comparison

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Viral infections alter antennal epithelium ultrastructure in honey bees

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Voltage-activated currents from adult honeybee (Apis mellifera) antennal motor neurons recorded in vitro and in situ

scientific article

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