Food for thought: honeybee foraging, memory, and acetylcholine.
Recent research implicates acetylcholine signaling through muscarinic receptors in structural changes that take place in the honeybee brain in response to foraging. These new findings are consistent with research from earlier studies implicating cholinergic signaling in associative learning as well as in the response to an enriched environment in mammals, which suggests that cholinergic signaling may play a critical role in learning and memory mechanisms across phyla.
Weinberger
Norman M
NM
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. nmweinbe@uci.edu
D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000502:physiology*; D000110:Acetylcholinesterase / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D001516:Bees / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D018721:Muscarinic Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D018727:Muscarinic Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D024521:Mushroom Bodies / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D009538:Nicotine / Q000494:pharmacology; D010862:Pilocarpine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D012601:Scopolamine / Q000494:pharmacology
D018721:Muscarinic Agonists; D018727:Muscarinic Antagonists; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D010862:Pilocarpine; D009538:Nicotine; D012601:Scopolamine; D000110:Acetylcholinesterase; D000109:Acetylcholine