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List of works by Johannes Spaethe

Adding Amino Acids to a Sucrose Diet Is Not Sufficient to Support Longevity of Adult Bumble Bees

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Age-related and light-induced plasticity in opsin gene expression and in primary and secondary visual centers of the nectar-feeding ant Camponotus rufipes

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

Bees use three-dimensional information to improve target detection.

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Behavioural evidence of colour vision in free flying stingless bees.

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Beyond 9-ODA: sex pheromone communication in the European honey bee Apis mellifera L.

scientific article published in March 2006

Blue colour preference in honeybees distracts visual attention for learning closed shapes.

scientific article published on 6 August 2013

Body size limits dim-light foraging activity in stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini)

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Bumblebees are able to perceive amino acids via chemotactile antennal stimulation

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Caution with colour calculations: spectral purity is a poor descriptor of flower colour visibility

scientific article published in 2022

Color preference and spatial distribution of glaphyrid beetles suggest a key role in the maintenance of the color polymorphism in the peacock anemone (Anemone pavonina, Ranunculaceae) in Northern Greece

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Correction: Extracting the Behaviorally Relevant Stimulus: Unique Neural Representation of Farnesol, a Component of the Recruitment Pheromone of Bombus terrestris

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles of Himalayan Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Bombus Latreille) are Species-Specific and Show Elevational Variation

scientific article published in 2024

Distributed plasticity in ant visual pathways following colour learning

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Do honeybees detect colour targets using serial or parallel visual search?

scientific article published in March 2006

Does Fine Color Discrimination Learning in Free-Flying Honeybees Change Mushroom-Body Calyx Neuroarchitecture?

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Dumb and Lazy? A Comparison of Color Learning and Memory Retrieval in Drones and Workers of the Buff-Tailed Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, by Means of PER Conditioning.

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Evidence for UV-green dichromacy in the basal hymenopteran Sirex noctilio (Siricidae)

scientific article published on 02 August 2021

Extracting the Behaviorally Relevant Stimulus: Unique Neural Representation of Farnesol, a Component of the Recruitment Pheromone of Bombus terrestris.

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

Floral visual signal increases reproductive success in a sexually deceptive orchid.

scientific article published on December 2012

Flower patterns improve foraging efficiency in bumblebees by guiding approach flight and landing

scientific article published in 2023

Functional Significance of Labellum Pattern Variation in a Sexually Deceptive Orchid (Ophrys heldreichii): Evidence of Individual Signature Learning Effects

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Honeybee odometry: performance in varying natural terrain

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How to know which food is good for you: bumblebees use taste to discriminate between different concentrations of food differing in nutrient content.

scientific article published on July 2015

Immediate early genes in social insects: a tool to identify brain regions involved in complex behaviors and molecular processes underlying neuroplasticity

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Innate colour preference, individual learning and memory retention in the ant Camponotus blandus

scientific article published in September 2017

Interindividual variation of eye optics and single object resolution in bumblebees.

scientific article published in October 2003

Learning performance and brain structure of artificially-reared honey bees fed with different quantities of food

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Length of stimulus presentation and visual angle are critical for efficient visual PER conditioning in the restrained honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Mechanisms of Nutritional Resource Exploitation by Insects

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Molecular and biochemical characterization of the major royal jelly protein in bumblebees suggest a non-nutritive function.

scientific article published on 19 May 2012

Molecular characterization and expression of the UV opsin in bumblebees: three ommatidial subtypes in the retina and a new photoreceptor organ in the lamina.

scientific article published in June 2005

Opsin expression patterns coincide with photoreceptor development during pupal development in the honey bee, Apis mellifera

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Perception, regulation, and fitness effects of pollen phytosterols in the bumble bee, <i>Bombus terrestris</i>

scientific article published in 2023

Pitfalls of using confocal-microscopy based automated quantification of synaptic complexes in honeybee mushroom bodies (response to Peng and Yang 2016).

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Royal jelly-like protein localization reveals differences in hypopharyngeal glands buildup and conserved expression pattern in brains of bumblebees and honeybees

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Sex and caste-specific variation in compound eye morphology of five honeybee species

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Sexual dimorphism in the olfactory system of a solitary and a eusocial bee species.

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Size determines antennal sensitivity and behavioral threshold to odors in bumblebee workers.

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Strategies of the honeybee Apis mellifera during visual search for vertical targets presented at various heights: a role for spatial attention?

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

The path to colour discrimination is S-shaped: behaviour determines the interpretation of colour models

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Visual attention in a complex search task differs between honeybees and bumblebees.

scientific article published in July 2012

Visual constraints in foraging bumblebees: flower size and color affect search time and flight behavior.

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Visual discrimination between two sexually deceptive Ophrys species by a bee pollinator.

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