Dopamine and octopamine influence avoidance learning of honey bees in a place preference assay.

Biogenic amines are widely characterized in pathways evaluating reward and punishment, resulting in appropriate aversive or appetitive responses of vertebrates and invertebrates. We utilized the honey bee model and a newly developed spatial avoidance conditioning assay to probe effects of biogenic a...

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Main Authors: Maitreyi Agarwal, Manuel Giannoni Guzmán, Carla Morales-Matos, Rafael Alejandro Del Valle Díaz, Charles I Abramson, Tugrul Giray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3184138?pdf=render