USING PUPAE AS APPETITIVE REINFORCEMENT TO STUDY VISUAL AND TACTILE ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN THE PONERINE ANT DIACAMMA INDICUM

Using pupae as appetitive reinforcement to study visual and tactile associative learning in the Ponerine ant Diacamma indicum

Abstract Associative learning is of great importance to animals, as it enhances their ability to navigate, forage, evade predation and improve fitness.Even though associative learning abilities of Hymenopterans have been explored, many of these studies offered food as appetitive reinforcement.In the current study, we focus on tactile and visual cue

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Free information works.In the sense that Open Access Journals, scientific journals which can be accessed at no cost, thereby guaranteeing free access to everyone, are at the same time able to guarantee the same quality as –or even better than- that of traditional journals, which can only be read by those willing to pay a price, be it the cover pr

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Reproductive Potential Impacts Body Maintenance Parameters and Global DNA Methylation in Honeybee Workers (Apis mellifera L.)

The widely accepted hypothesis in life history evolution about the trade-off between fecundity and longevity is not confirmed by long-living and highly fecund queens in eusocial insects.The fact that the queens and facultatively sterile workers usually arise from genetically identical eggs but differ in DNA methylation makes them a good model for s

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