Gene expression and immunohistochemical analyses of mKast suggest its late pupal and adult-specific functions in the honeybee brain.

In insect brains, the mushroom bodies (MBs, a higher center) comprise intrinsic neurons, termed Kenyon cells (KCs). We previously showed that the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) MBs comprise four types of KCs, in addition to the previously known three types of KCs: class I large-type KCs (lKCs), class...

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Main Authors: Atsuhiro Yamane, Hiroki Kohno, Tsubomi Ikeda, Kumi Kaneko, Atsushi Ugajin, Toshiyuki Fujita, Takekazu Kunieda, Takeo Kubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5417555?pdf=render