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Mushroom Bodies

Known as: Corpora Pedunculata, Mushroom Body, Pedunculata, Corpora 
Prominent lobed neuropils found in ANNELIDA and all ARTHROPODS except crustaceans. They are thought to be involved in olfactory learning and memory.
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Review
2013
Review
2013
Spatial Memory in Insect Navigation
Review
2009
Review
2009
Olfactory Information Processing in Drosophila
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Olfactory representations by Drosophila mushroom body neurons.
Learning and memory has been studied extensively in Drosophila using behavioral, molecular, and genetic approaches. These studies… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Engulfing Action of Glial Cells Is Required for Programmed Axon Pruning during Drosophila Metamorphosis
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
TGF-β Signaling Activates Steroid Hormone Receptor Expression during Neuronal Remodeling in the Drosophila Brain
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Subdivisions of hymenopteran mushroom body calyces by their afferent supply
  • W. Gronenberg
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 2001
  • Corpus ID: 19259523
The mushroom bodies are regions in the insect brain involved in processing complex multimodal information. They are composed of… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Disruption of neurotransmission in Drosophila mushroom body blocks retrieval but not acquisition of memory
Surgical, pharmacological and genetic lesion studies have revealed distinct anatomical sites involved with different forms of… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The amnesiac Gene Product Is Expressed in Two Neurons in the Drosophila Brain that Are Critical for Memory
Review
1998
Review
1998
Evolution, discovery, and interpretations of arthropod mushroom bodies.
Mushroom bodies are prominent neuropils found in annelids and in all arthropod groups except crustaceans. First explicitly… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Olfactory Learning Deficits in Mutants for leonardo, a Drosophila Gene Encoding a 14-3-3 Protein
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