ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2017
Experience during early adulthood shapes the learning capacities and the number of synaptic boutons in the mushroom bodies of honey bees (
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- A defined community of core gut microbiota members promotes cognitive performance in honey bees.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Neuronal Plasticity in the Mushroom Bodies of Winter Bees Is Retained Despite Substantially Advanced Age.Developmental neurobiology · 2025Article
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- Expansion microscopy in honeybee brains for high-resolution neuroanatomical analyses in social insects.Cell and tissue research · 2023Article
- Experience-dependent plasticity in the olfactory system ofFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023Review
- Multisite imaging of neural activity using a genetically encoded calcium sensor in the honey bee.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Dynamically expressed single ELAV/Hu orthologue elavl2 of bees is required for learning and memory.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Age-related mushroom body expansion in male sweat bees and bumble bees.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Plasticity and modulation of olfactory circuits in insects.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- The Toll Route to Structural Brain Plasticity.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
- Insecticide exposure during brood or early-adult development reduces brain growth and impairs adult learning in bumblebees.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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- Experience-dependent tuning of early olfactory processing in the adult honey bee,The Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- Automated quantification of synaptic boutons reveals their 3D distribution in the honey bee mushroom body.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- A Syndromic Neurodevelopmental Disorder Caused by Mutations in SMARCD1, a Core SWI/SNF Subunit Needed for Context-Dependent Neuronal Gene Regulation in Flies.American journal of human genetics · 2019Article
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Abstract
The honey bee mushroom bodies (MBs) are brain centers required for specific learning tasks. Here, we show that environmental conditions experienced as young adults affect the maturation of MB neuropil and performance in a MB-dependent learning task. Specifically, olfactory reversal learning was selectively impaired following early exposure to an impoverished environment lacking some of the sensory and social interactions present in the hive. In parallel, the overall number of synaptic boutons increased within the MB olfactory neuropil, whose volume remained unaffected. This suggests that experience of the rich in-hive environment promotes MB maturation and the development of MB-dependent learning capacities.
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