Calcium — the secret to honeybees’ memory

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Biology | Posted on 29-06-2009

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Long-term memory formation in honeybees is instigated by a calcium ion cascade. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology have shown that calcium acts as a switch between short- and long-term storage of learned information.

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