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Mushroom bodies in the brain of carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae)

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Mushroom bodies are developed similarly in all the carrion beetles studied, and the transition from necrophagy to predation in some species does not affect considerably their level of development. The Kenyon cells form two small groups in each brain hemisphere and are subdivided into central and peripheral cells. Two closely located inputs of the Kenyon cell processes enter a single, pillow-shaped calyx region. The pedunculus comprises two shafts along a considerable part of its length, which fuse in the lobes. In the degree of development, the mushroom bodies of carrion beetles resemble those of basal lamellicorn and longhorned beetles.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Panov, 2012, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 554–559.

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Panov, A.A. Mushroom bodies in the brain of carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae). Entmol. Rev. 92, 741–746 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873812070020

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