Behavioral development in the honey bee: toward the study of learning under natural conditions.
Year: 1995
Type: preprint
Abstract: In t roduct ion The adult worker honey bee is a sophisticated learner in a small package. To a certain extent, the same ay be said of many insects. But the striking tendency of the social insects--the ants, bees, wasps, and termites--to rganize social life on the basis of age polyethism (division of labor by worker age) results in a relatively prolonged period of adult behavioral development (Wilson 1971; H611dobler and Wilson 1990). In colonies of the European honey bee, Apis mellifera, young adult workers rear the next generation and store food; middle-aged workers maintain the physical structure of the hive; and the oldest workers forage (Winston 1987; Robinson 1992; Moritz and Southwick 1993). These different asks require different skills and provide different opportunities for skill improvement (learning). How best can one study the neural correlates of learning in the honey bee? The honey bee can be (and has been, with fruitful results) tested in well-defined learning paradigms in the laboratory and then probed by
Source: Learning & Memory
DOI: 10.1101/lm.2.5.199
Authors: S E Fahrbach, G E Robinson
Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Language: English
Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2392598129