Valence of social information is encoded in different subpopulations of mushroom body Kenyon cells in the honeybee brain.

ABSTRACT: Over 600 Myr of evolutionary divergence between vertebrates and invertebrates is associated with considerable neuroanatomical variation both across and within these lineages. By contrast, valence encoding is an important behavioural trait that is evolutionarily conserved across vertebrates and invertebrates, and enables individuals to distinguish between positive (potentially beneficial) and negative (potentially harmful) situations. We tested the hypothesis that social interactions of positive and negative valence are modularly encoded in the honeybee brain (i.e. encoded in different cellular subpopulations) as in vertebrate brains. In vertebrates, neural activation patterns are distributed across distinct parts of the brain, suggesting that discrete circuits encode positive or negative s

SUBMITTER: Traniello IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6743001 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature