Jean-Christophe Sandoz‘s team (Evolbee) is involved in a work published in PNAS showing that mushroom bodies are necessary for configural discriminations in bees.
Mushroom bodies are especially prominent structures in the brain of social insects like honey bees. This species also shows unique higher order learning capabilities among insects. This work establishes links between these two facts by showing the role of mushroom bodies in bees in higher order learning that for example Drosophila are not able to perform.
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