ArticleCommunications biology2020
Pheromone components affect motivation and induce persistent modulation of associative learning and memory in honey bees.
Article in Communications biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Butterfly brains change in morphology and in gene splicing patterns after brief pheromone exposure.BMC biology · 2026Article
- The cognitive side of communication in social insects.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025Review
- Context-dependent effects of formic acid on olfactory learning and generalisation in ants.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aversive learning reduces aversive-reinforcer sensitivity in honey bees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Learning performance and GABAergic pathway link to deformed wing virus in the mushroom bodies of naturally infected honey bees.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Effects of Artificial Sugar Supplementation on the Composition and Nutritional Potency of Honey fromInsects · 2024Article
- Biased brain and behavioral responses towards kin in males of a communally breeding species.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A PDMS-Agar Hybrid Microfluidic Device for the Investigation of Chemical-Mechanical Associative Learning Behavior ofMicromachines · 2023Article
- Visual learning in tethered bees modifies flight orientation and is impaired by epinastine.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Article
- Changes in resource perception throughout the foraging visit contribute to task specialization in the honey bee Apis mellifera.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Review
- Ants prefer the option they are trained to first.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Antenna movements as a function of odorants' biological value in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Mechanistic insight of the potential of geraniol against Alzheimer's disease.European journal of medical research · 2022Article
- Review
- Impact of Chronic Exposure to Two Neonicotinoids on Honey Bee Antennal Responses to Flower Volatiles and Pheromonal Compounds.Frontiers in insect science · 2022Article
- Biosynthesis of 2-Heptanone, a Volatile Organic Compound with a Protective Role against Honey Bee Pathogens, by Hive Associated Bacteria.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Adipokinetic hormone (AKH), energy budget and their effect on feeding and gustatory processes of foraging honey bees.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Hard limits to cognitive flexibility: ants can learn to ignore but not avoid pheromone trails.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- The neuroethology of olfactory sex communication in the honeybee Apis mellifera L.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Since their discovery in insects, pheromones are considered as ubiquitous and stereotyped chemical messengers acting in intraspecific animal communication. Here we studied the effect of pheromones in a different context as we investigated their capacity to induce persistent modulations of associative learning and memory. We used honey bees, Apis mellifera, and combined olfactory conditioning and pheromone preexposure with disruption of neural activity and two-photon imaging of olfactory brain circuits, to characterize the effect of pheromones on olfactory learning and memory. Geraniol, an attractive pheromone component, and 2-heptanone, an aversive pheromone, improved and impaired, respectively, olfactory learning and memory via a durable modulation of appetitive motivation, which left odor processing unaffected. Consistently, interfering with aminergic circuits mediating appetitive motivation rescued or diminished the cognitive effects induced by pheromone components. We thus show that these chemical messengers act as important modulators of motivational processes and influence thereby animal cognition.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.