ReviewInsects2014
The Bee as a Model to Investigate Brain and Behavioural Asymmetries.
Review in Insects, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Prenatal light exposure affects number sense and the mental number line in young domestic chicks.eLife · 2025Article
- In Vivo Two-Photon Imaging of the Olfactory System in Insects.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
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- Natural variability in bee brain size and symmetry revealed by micro-CT imaging and deep learning.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- A deep phenotyping approach to assess the association of handedness, early life factors and mental health.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Broadening the scope: Increasing phenotype diversity in laterality research.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Lateralization of social signal brain processing correlates with the degree of social integration in a songbird.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Honeybees show a context-dependent rightward bias.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Complementary Specializations of the Left and Right Sides of the Honeybee Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Lateralization of Sucrose Responsiveness and Non-associative Learning in Honeybees.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Morphofunctional experience-dependent plasticity in the honeybee brain.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2017Article
- Larval antlions with more pronounced behavioural asymmetry show enhanced cognitive skills.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Lateralized antennal control of aggression and sex differences in red mason bees, Osmia bicornis.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Aggression in Tephritidae Flies: Where, When, Why? Future Directions for Research in Integrated Pest Management.Insects · 2014Review
- Oxidative stress and age-related olfactory memory impairment in the honeybee Apis mellifera.Frontiers in genetics · 2014Article
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Abstract
The honeybee Apis mellifera, with a brain of only 960,000 neurons and the ability to perform sophisticated cognitive tasks, has become an excellent model in life sciences and in particular in cognitive neurosciences. It has been used in our laboratories to investigate brain and behavioural asymmetries, i.e., the different functional specializations of the right and the left sides of the brain. It is well known that bees can learn to associate an odour stimulus with a sugar reward, as demonstrated by extension of the proboscis when presented with the trained odour in the so-called Proboscis Extension Reflex (PER) paradigm. Bees recall this association better when trained using their right antenna than they do when using their left antenna. They also retrieve short-term memory of this task better when using the right antenna. On the other hand, when tested for long-term memory recall, bees respond better when using their left antenna. Here we review a series of behavioural studies investigating bees' lateralization, integrated with electrophysiological measurements to study asymmetries of olfactory sensitivity, and discuss the possible evolutionary origins of these asymmetries. We also present morphological data obtained by scanning electron microscopy and two-photon microscopy. Finally, a behavioural study conducted in a social context is summarised, showing that honeybees control context-appropriate social interactions using their right antenna, rather than the left, thus suggesting that lateral biases in behaviour might be associated with requirements of social life.
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