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Comparison of microglomerular structures in the mushroom body calyx of neopteran insects

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Social bonds in birds are associated with brain size and contingent on the correlated evolution of life-history and increased parental investment

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Visual experience and age affect synaptic organization in the mushroom bodies of the desert antCataglyphis fortis

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Community-level interactions and functional ecology of major workers in the hyperdiverse ground-foraging Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Amazonian Ecuador

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Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks

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Socially induced brain development in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

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Gregarious desert locusts have substantially larger brains with altered proportions compared with the solitarious phase

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Parasitoidism, not sociality, is associated with the evolution of elaborate mushroom bodies in the brains of hymenopteran insects

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Age and task efficiency in the ant Pheidole dentata: young minor workers are not specialist nurses

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Behavioral evolution in the major worker subcaste of twig-nesting Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): does morphological specialization influence task plasticity?

(2009) Amy L. Mertl et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Are Bigger Brains Better?

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Phenotypic plasticity in number of glomeruli and sensory innervation of the antennal lobe in leaf-cutting ant workers (A. vollenweideri)

(2009) Christina Kelber et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Ground plan of the insect mushroom body: Functional and evolutionary implications

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Distinct antennal lobe phenotypes in the leaf-cutting ant (Atta vollenweideri)

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Effect of age, behaviour and social environment on honey bee brain plasticity

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Brain organization mirrors caste differences, colony founding and nest architecture in paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

(2009) Y. Molina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Age, sex, and dominance-related mushroom body plasticity in the paperwaspMischocyttarus mastigophorus

(2008) Yamile Molina et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Age- and subcaste-related patterns of serotonergic immunoreactivity in the optic lobes of the antPheidole dentata

(2008) Marc A. Seid et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Physiology as a caste-defining feature

(2008) E. J. H. Robinson   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Energy limitation as a selective pressure on the evolution of sensory systems

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Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies

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Soldier-Specific Modification of the Mandibular Motor Neurons in Termites

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Hippocampal volumes and neuron numbers increase along a gradient of environmental harshness: a large-scale comparison

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