Experience, but not age, is associated with volumetric mushroom body expansion in solitary alkali bees.
Experience-dependent
Experience-expectant
Mushroom body plasticity
Nomia melanderi
Sociality
Journal
The Journal of experimental biology
ISSN: 1477-9145
Titre abrégé: J Exp Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0243705
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 03 2021
28 03 2021
Historique:
received:
12
10
2020
accepted:
09
02
2021
pubmed:
20
2
2021
medline:
10
7
2021
entrez:
19
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In social insects, changes in behavior are often accompanied by structural changes in the brain. This neuroplasticity may come with experience (experience-dependent) or age (experience-expectant). Yet, the evolutionary relationship between neuroplasticity and sociality is unclear, because we know little about neuroplasticity in the solitary relatives of social species. We used confocal microscopy to measure brain changes in response to age and experience in a solitary halictid bee (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33602679
pii: jeb.238899
doi: 10.1242/jeb.238899
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Alkalies
0
Banques de données
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.xksn02vfc']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© 2021. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing or financial interests.