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SUBMITTER: Andrione M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5131477 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Andrione Mara M Vallortigara Giorgio G Antolini Renzo R Haase Albrecht A
Scientific reports 20161201
Exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides is considered one of the possible causes of honeybee (Apis mellifera) population decline. At sublethal doses, these chemicals have been shown to negatively affect a number of behaviours, including performance of olfactory learning and memory, due to their interference with acetylcholine signalling in the mushroom bodies. Here we provide evidence that neonicotinoids can affect odour coding upstream of the mushroom bodies, in the first odour processing centres ...[more]