Experience-dependent tuning of early olfactory processing in the adult honey bee, Apis mellifera.

ABSTRACT: Experience-dependent plasticity in the central nervous system allows an animal to adapt its responses to stimuli over different time scales. In this study, we explored the impacts of adult foraging experience on early olfactory processing by comparing naturally foraging honey bees, Apis mellifera, with those that experienced a chronic reduction in adult foraging experience. We placed age-matched sets of sister honey bees into two different olfactory conditions, in which animals were allowed to forage ad libitum In one condition, we restricted foraging experience by placing honey bees in a tent in which both sucrose and pollen resources were associated with a single odor. In the second condition, honey bees were allowed to forage freely and therefore encounter a diversity of n

SUBMITTER: Jernigan CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6983706 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature