IFIBYNE 05513
INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGIA, BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR Y NEUROCIENCIAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Retention of long-term memories in different age-groups of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers
Autor/es:
GRÜTER, CHRISTOPH; BALBUENA, M SOL; FARINA, WALTER M
Revista:
INSECTES SOCIAUX
Editorial:
BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
Referencias:
Año: 2009 p. 385 - 387
ISSN:
0020-1812
Resumen:
Honeybees can learn food odors inside the nestduring food sharing and use this information during flowerchoice, dance choice or choice of a trophallactic partner.We investigated for how long odors learned inside the hiveare retained by bees of different age groups. In our study,bees retrieved food odors for up to 1011 days. Our resultssuggest that olfactory information acquired by young beeswhile performing in-hive duties can be retrieved whenperforming foraging duties later in life.
