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Neurobiology and Behavior of Honeybees

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Randolf Menzel

    1. Institute of Animal Physiology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

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  2. Alison Mercer

    1. Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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At the beginning of the century, Karl von Frisch inaugurated the experimental analysis of bee behavior with his studies on form and color vision. Since then, experimental analysis of bee behavior has been extended to their orientation in space and time, sensory capabilities, and communication within a social group. How does a creature with a brain volume of scarcely one cubic millimeter generate such varied and complex behavior? This volume represents the latest research on the behavior and neurobiology of bees. Topics include: dance communication, foraging and search behavior, decision making, color vision, learning and memory, structure and function of brain neurons, immunocytological characterization of neuropils and identified neurons,and neuropharmacological studies of stereotyped and learned behavior. Together these papers illustrate the challenge that bee behavior presents to the neuroethologist as well as the progress that this field has made in recent years in the tradition of von Frisch's pioneering work.

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Martin Lindauer
      Pages 1-6

  3. Evolution and Genetics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Evolution of Honeybees

      • Friedrich Ruttner
      Pages 8-20

    3. Behavior Genetics of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.)

      • Robin F. A. Moritz, Christian Brandes
      Pages 21-35

  4. The Foraging Honeybee

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Social Foraging by Honeybees: How a Colony Tracks Rich Sources of Nectar

      • Thomas D. Seeley, Royce A. Levien
      Pages 38-53

    3. New Perspectives on the Dance Orientation of the Asian Honeybees

      • Fred C. Dyer
      Pages 54-65

    4. Perception of Foraging Costs and Intakes, and Foraging Decisions

      • Keith D. Waddington
      Pages 66-75

    5. The Bee’s E-Vector Compass

      • Samuel Rossel, Rüdiger Wehner
      Pages 76-93

  5. Physiological Aspects of Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Texture Sensitivity in the Life of Honeybees

      • Peter G. Kevan
      Pages 96-101

    3. Thermoregulation by Individual Honeybees

      • Bernd Heinrich
      Pages 102-111

    4. Sleep Research on Honeybees: Neurophysiology and Behavior

      • Walter Kaiser, Jana Steiner-Kaiser
      Pages 112-120

    5. Behavioral and Pharmacological Analysis of the Stinging Response in Africanized and Italian Bees

      • N. Balderrama, H. Díaz, A. Sequeda, J. Núnez, H. Maldonado
      Pages 121-128

  6. Visual System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The Structural Basis of Information Processing in the Visual System of the Bee

      • Willi A. Ribi
      Pages 130-140

    3. Processing of Visual Information in the Honeybee Brain

      • Horst Hertel, Ulrike Maronde
      Pages 141-157

    4. Motion Sensitive Descending Interneurons, Ocellar LD Neurons and Neck Motoneurons in the Bee: A Neural Substrate for Visual Course Control in Apis mellifera

      • Lesley J. Goodman, William A. Fletcher, Richard G. Guy, Peter G. Mobbs, Christopher D. J. Pomfrett
      Pages 158-171

    5. Color Vision in Honeybees: Metric, Dimensions, Constancy, and Ecological Aspects

      • Werner Backhaus, Annette Werner, Randolf Menzel
      Pages 172-190
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Animal Physiology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

    Randolf Menzel

  • Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Alison Mercer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neurobiology and Behavior of Honeybees

  • Editors: Randolf Menzel, Alison Mercer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71496-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-71498-6Published: 06 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-71496-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 334

  • Topics: Neurosciences

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