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Some honeybees learn tasks better than others, and gene expression patterns in their brains may be associated with this difference in ability

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Behavioral and genetic correlates of heterogeneity in learning performance in individual honeybees, Apis mellifera

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The figure shows the experimental condition in which the bees were fixed to a tube each, and trained bee by bee separately to s sequence of odors.

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Credit: Randolf Menzel, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Some honeybees learn tasks better than others, and gene expression patterns in their brains may be associated with this difference in ability

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0304563  

Article Title: Behavioral and genetic correlates of heterogeneity in learning performance in individual honeybees, Apis mellifera

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.


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