Visual learning and discrimination using Proboscis Extension Reflex in restrained Africanized honey bees, Apis mellifera scutellata
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00210