Recent advances in the concept of adaptation to natural odour signals in the honeybee, Apis mellifera L

Abstract

Discusses experimental results aimed at a better understanding of how complex food odour mixtures are processed and discriminated in the bee's olfactory system, and used finally as a flower species-specific signal for foraging behaviour. Several levels have been considered, from development and behavioural to neural correlates, including theoretical modelling aspects. -from Authors