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Parallel processing in the honeybee olfactory pathway: structure, function, and evolution.
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- Never underestimate honeybees: Their exceptionally diverse adaptive strategies.Journal of advanced research · 2026Review
- Form informs function: innervation patterns of projection neurons correspond to response profiles of mushroom body output neurons during olfactory-visual integration.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Structural aspects of the aging invertebrate brain.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- Olfactory coding in honeybees.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
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- The Performance of Olfactory Receptor Neurons: The Rate of Concentration Change Indicates Functional Specializations in the Cockroach Peripheral Olfactory System.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Independent processing of increments and decrements in odorant concentration by ON and OFF olfactory receptor neurons.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Review
- In-situ recording of ionic currents in projection neurons and Kenyon cells in the olfactory pathway of the honeybee.PloS one · 2018Article
- Olfactory learning without the mushroom bodies: Spiking neural network models of the honeybee lateral antennal lobe tract reveal its capacities in odour memory tasks of varied complexities.PLoS computational biology · 2017Article
- Insect Bio-inspired Neural Network Provides New Evidence on How Simple Feature Detectors Can Enable Complex Visual Generalization and Stimulus Location Invariance in the Miniature Brain of Honeybees.PLoS computational biology · 2017Article
- Two Parallel Olfactory Pathways for Processing General Odors in a Cockroach.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2017Article
- Individual Neurons Confined to Distinct Antennal-Lobe Tracts in the Heliothine Moth: Morphological Characteristics and Global Projection Patterns.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2016Article
- Daily Thermal Fluctuations Experienced by Pupae via Rhythmic Nursing Behavior Increase Numbers of Mushroom Body Microglomeruli in the Adult Ant Brain.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Differential combinatorial coding of pheromones in two olfactory subsystems of the honey bee brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
- Parallel Olfactory Processing in the Honey Bee Brain: Odor Learning and Generalization under Selective Lesion of a Projection Neuron Tract.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2015Article
- It takes two-coincidence coding within the dual olfactory pathway of the honeybee.Frontiers in physiology · 2015Article
- Olfactory subsystems in the honeybee: sensory supply and sex specificity.Cell and tissue research · 2014Article
- Simultaneous long-term recordings at two neuronal processing stages in behaving honeybees.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2014Article
- Parallel pathways convey olfactory information with opposite polarities in Drosophila.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
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Abstract
Animals face highly complex and dynamic olfactory stimuli in their natural environments, which require fast and reliable olfactory processing. Parallel processing is a common principle of sensory systems supporting this task, for example in visual and auditory systems, but its role in olfaction remained unclear. Studies in the honeybee focused on a dual olfactory pathway. Two sets of projection neurons connect glomeruli in two antennal-lobe hemilobes via lateral and medial tracts in opposite sequence with the mushroom bodies and lateral horn. Comparative studies suggest that this dual-tract circuit represents a unique adaptation in Hymenoptera. Imaging studies indicate that glomeruli in both hemilobes receive redundant sensory input. Recent simultaneous multi-unit recordings from projection neurons of both tracts revealed widely overlapping response profiles strongly indicating parallel olfactory processing. Whereas lateral-tract neurons respond fast with broad (generalistic) profiles, medial-tract neurons are odorant specific and respond slower. In analogy to "what-" and "where" subsystems in visual pathways, this suggests two parallel olfactory subsystems providing "what-" (quality) and "when" (temporal) information. Temporal response properties may support across-tract coincidence coding in higher centers. Parallel olfactory processing likely enhances perception of complex odorant mixtures to decode the diverse and dynamic olfactory world of a social insect.
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