Increased Neural Activity of a Mushroom Body Neuron Subtype in the Brains of Forager Honeybees

Taketoshi Kiya; Takekazu Kunieda; Takeo Kubo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000371

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Increased Neural Activity of a Mushroom Body Neuron Subtype in the Brains of Forager Honeybees

Taketoshi Kiya ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kiya@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK); stkubo@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Takekazu Kunieda,

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Takeo Kubo

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kiya@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK); stkubo@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Increased Neural Activity of a Mushroom Body Neuron Subtype in the Brains of Forager Honeybees

Taketoshi Kiya,
Takekazu Kunieda,
Takeo Kubo

Published: April 18, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000371

About the Authors

Taketoshi Kiya

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kiya@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK); stkubo@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takekazu Kunieda

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takeo Kubo

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kiya@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK); stkubo@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

This work was supported by the Program for Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Bioscience (PROBRAIN). T. Kiya is the recipient of a Grant-in-Aid for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellows.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T. Kiya. Performed the experiments: T. Kiya. Analyzed the data: T. Kiya. Wrote the paper: T. Kiya, T. Kunieda, T. Kubo.

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