Sentences with phrase «insect mushroom body»

This is the first evidence that parasitism, and not sociality, was the driver of insect mushroom body complexity, she says.

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The researchers found that the so - called mushroom bodies, the lobes that underlie learning and memory in insects, were larger in dominant wasps than in their subordinate peers.

Mushroom bodies are the insect equivalent of the human neocortex, the outer layer of our brain, which handles complex cognition.

The brain centers in question are paired, lobed structures first discovered in insects and known as mushroom bodies.

Strausfeld and Wolff looked at both the neuroanatomy and chemical composition of mushroom bodies in numerous species belonging to two major groups of invertebrates: Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, crustaceans and other arthropods such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs; and Lophotrochozoa, which includes mollusks, flatworms and segmented worms.

The link between brain size and social living was first noted in 1850, when scientists identified mushroom bodies in the insect brain.

Dr. Ruta, Rockefeller University, shows in her latest paper featured in Cell that the mushroom body, a pair of structures in insect brains, acts as a «switchboard» to relay sensory information to different neuronal networks based on the fruit fly's previous experience and context.

Aggressive little marine predators, mantis shrimps possess a mushroom body that appears identical to the one found in insects.