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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Honey bees infer source location from the dances of returning foragers.

Zhengwei Wang, Xiuxian Chen, Frank Becker, Uwe Greggers, Stefan Walter, Marleen Werner, Charles R Gallistel, Randolf Menzel

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Honeybees express foodward flight vectors after a detour.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025
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  4. Path integration and optic flow in flying insects: a review of current evidence.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025
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  8. Navigation and dance communication in honeybees: a cognitive perspective.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023
    Review
  9. The search for the cognitive map.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  10. Generalization of navigation memory in honeybees.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Zhengwei WangCAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650000, China.
Xiuxian ChenInstitute for Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Frank BeckerInstitute of Neurobiology and Ethology, Philipps University Marburg, 35037 Marburg, Germany.
Uwe GreggersInstitute for Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Stefan WalterInstitute for Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Marleen WernerInstitute for Biology, Neurobiology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Charles R GallistelRutgers Centre of Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08854.ORCID 0000-0002-4860-5637
Randolf MenzelCAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9576-039X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

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PMID36917670
PMCPMC10041085

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