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Genotypic influence on aversive conditioning in honeybees, using a novel thermal reinforcement procedure.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Junca Pierre, Carcaud Julie, Moulin Sibyle, Garnery Lionel, Sandoz Jean-Christophe
Abstract excerpt
In Pavlovian conditioning, animals learn to associate initially neutral stimuli with positive or negative outcomes, leading to appetitive and aversive learning respectively. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a prominent invertebrate model for studying both versions of olfactory learning and for unraveling the influence of genotype. As a queen bee mates with about 15 males, her worker offspring belong to as many,...
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