...Yarira Ortiz-Alvarado; David R. Clark; Carlos J. Vega-Melendez; Zomary Flores-Cruz; Maria G. Domingez-Bello; Tugrul Giray ABSTRACT Recurrent honeybee losses make it critical to understand the impact of human interventions, such as antibiotic use in apiculture. Antibiotics are used to prevent...

... that phospholipase C epsilon ( PLCe ), whose product is involved in calcium signaling, is almost selectively expressed in the mushroom bodies, a brain structure important for learning and memory in the honeybee. Here, we pharmacologically examined the role of phospholipase C (PLC) in learning and memory...

...Štefan Albert; Johannes Spaethe; Kornelia Grübel; Wolfgang Rössler ABSTRACT Royal jelly proteins (MRJPs) of the honeybee bear several open questions. One of them is their expression in tissues other than the hypopharyngeal glands (HGs), the site of royal jelly production. The sole MRJP-like gene...