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SUBMITTER: Baracchi D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7431541 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baracchi David D Cabirol Amélie A Devaud Jean-Marc JM Haase Albrecht A d'Ettorre Patrizia P Giurfa Martin M
Communications biology 20200817 1
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 ci ...[more]