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Food for thought: honeybee foraging, memory, and acetylcholine

Norman M Weinberger1

  • 1Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. nmweinbe@uci.edu

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|May 25, 2006
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Summary

Acetylcholine signaling via muscarinic receptors drives brain changes in honeybees during foraging. This highlights acetylcholine

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