Honeybee Neurobiology and Behavior

Preface.- Section 1. Mechanisms of social organization.- 1.1. The spirit of the hive and how a superorganism evolves. Author: Rob E. Page.- 1.2. Vitellogenin in honey bee behavior and lifespan. Authors: Gro V. Amdam, Erin Fennern, Heli Havukainen.- 1.3. Circadian rhythms and sleep in honey bees. Authors: Ada Eban-Rothschild and Guy Bloch.- 1.4. Mechanisms of social organization: commentary.- Author: Randolf Menzel.- Section 2. Communication and navigation.- 2.1. Foraging honey bees: how foragers determine and transmit information about feeding site locations.- Author: Harald Esch.- 2.2. How do honey bees obtain information about direction by following dances?.- Author: Axel Michelsen - 2.3. Progress in understanding how the waggle dance improves the foraging efficiency of honey bee colonies.- Author: Thomas D. Seeley - 2.4. Olfactory information transfer during recruitment in honey bees. Authors: Walter M. Farina, Christoph Gruter and Andres Arenas.- 2.5. Navigation and communication in honey bees. Authors: Randolf Menzel et al., and Uwe Greggers.- 2.6. Communication and navigation: commentary. Author: Randolf Menzel.- Section 3. Brain anatomy and physiology.- 3.1. The digital honey bee brain atlas. Author: Jurgen Rybak.- 3.2. Plasticity of synaptic microcircuits in the mushroom-body calyx of the honey bee. Authors: Wolfgang Rossler and Claudia Groh.- 3.3. Neurotransmitter systems in the honey bee brain: functions in learning and memory. Authors: Monique Gauthier and Bernd Grunewald.- 3.4. Glutamate neurotransmission in the honey bee central nervous system. Author: Gerard Leboulle.- 3.5. Cellular physiology of the honey bee brain. Author: Bernd Grunewald.- 3.6. Dopamine signalling in the bee. Authors: Julie A. Mustard et. al, and Alison R. Mercer.- 3.7. Neuropeptides in honey bees. Authors: Giovanni Galizia and Sabine Kreissl.- 3.8. Brain anatomy and physiology: commentary. Author: Randolf Menzel.- Section 4. Sensory systems.- 4.1. Olfaction in honey bees: from molecules to behavior. Author: Jean-Christophe Sandoz.- 4.2. Taste perception in honey bees. Author: Maria Gabriela de Brito Sanchez.- 4.3. The auditory system of the honey bee. Authors: Hiroyuki Ai and Tsunao Itoh.- 4.4. Honey bee vision in relation to flower patterns. Authors: Misha Vorobyev and Natalie Hempel de Ibarra.- 4.5. Psychophysics of honey bee color processing in complex environments. Author: Adrian G. Dyer.- 4.6. Sensory systems: commentary. Author: Randolf Menzel.- Section 5. Genetics and molecular biology.- 5.1. Neurogenomic and neurochemical dissection of honey bee dance communication. Authors: Andrew B. Barron et al., and Gene E. Robinson.- 5.2. Neuroanatomical dissection of the honey bee brain based on temporal and regional gene expression patterns. Author: Takeo Kubo.- 5.3. Extinction learning in honey bees. Authors: Judith Reinhard and Charles Claudianos.- 5.4. Elucidating the path from genotype to behaviour in honey bees: insights from epigenomics?. Author: Ryszard Maleszka.- 5.5. Genetics and molecular biology: commentary. Author: Randolf Menzel.- Section 6. Learning and memory.- 6.1. Distributed plasticity for olfactory learning and memory in the honey bee brain. Brian H. Smith et al., and Irina Sinakevitch.- 6.2. The molecular biology of learning and memory - memory phases and signaling cascades. Author: Uli Muller.- 6.3. Conflicting memories in honey bees. Author: Dorothea Eisenhardt.- 6.4. Tactile antennal learning in the honey bee. Author: Joachim Erber.- 6.5. Testing mathematical laws of behavior in the honey bee. Author: Ken Cheng .- 6.6. Visual cognition in honey bees: from elemental visual learning to non-elemental problem solving. Author: Martin Giurfa.- 6.7. Learning and memory: commentary. Author: Randolf Menzel.