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The arthropod mushroom body: Its functional roles, evolutionary enigmas and mistaken identities

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Book cover The Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach

Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum ((EXS,volume 72))

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Insects share the same physical environment as terrestrial vertebrates. However, insects are vastly more successful in terms of their adaptive radiation and colonization. The biomass of insects alone is said to outweigh all other organisms and it can be speculated that their evolutionary success is a consequence, not only of their environmental colonization, but also of their behavioral versatility which sets them apart from other terrestrial arthopods. If this hypothesis is correct, it might be expected that there exist neural organizations that are peculiar to, or greatly elaborated in, the Insecta alone. This chapter describes the occurrence among selected arthropods of a brain region that, in eusocial insects, reaches great complexity and is implicated in learning and memory. Its identification in various taxa is assessed against the background of current theories of arthropod evolution and brain segmentation.

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Strausfeld, N.J., Buschbeck, E.K., Gomez, R.S. (1995). The arthropod mushroom body: Its functional roles, evolutionary enigmas and mistaken identities. In: Breidbach, O., Kutsch, W. (eds) The Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach. Experientia Supplementum, vol 72. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9219-3_16

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