Alison R. Mercer

Research.com Recognitions

• 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Best Publications

• The effects of biogenic amines on conditioned and unconditioned responses to olfactory stimuli in the honeybeeApis mellifera

  A. R. Mercer;R. Menzel

  368
  Citations

• An atlas and 3-D reconstruction of the antennal lobes in the worker honey bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

  Daniel Flanagan;Alison R. Mercer

  247
  Citations

• Queen pheromone modulates brain dopamine function in worker honey bees

  Kyle T. Beggs;Kelly A. Glendining;Nicola M. Marechal;Vanina Vergoz

  205
  Citations

• Serotonin enhances central olfactory neuron responses to female sex pheromone in the male sphinx moth manduca sexta.

  Peter Kloppenburg;Donald Ferns;Alison R. Mercer;Alison R. Mercer

  182
  Citations

• Activity-Dependent Changes to the Brain and Behavior of the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera (L.)

  Dominique Sigg;Caryn M. Thompson;Alison R. Mercer

  178
  Citations

• Molecular biology of the invertebrate dopamine receptors.

  Julie A. Mustard;Kyle T. Beggs;Alison R. Mercer

  169
  Citations

• Structural plasticity of identified glomeruli in the antennal lobes of the adult worker honey bee

  Andrew P. Winnington;Ruth M. Napper;Alison R. Mercer

  163
  Citations

• Changes in brain amine levels associated with the morphological and behavioural development of the worker honeybee.

  David J. Taylor;Gene E. Robinson;Barbara J. Logan;Richard Laverty

  153
  Citations

• Cannabinoid receptors are absent in insects.

  John McPartland;Vincenzo Di Marzo;Luciano De Petrocellis;Alison Mercer

  151
  Citations

• Morphology and response characteristics of neurones in the deutocerebrum of the brain in the honeybeeApis mellifera

  Daniel Flanagan;Alison R. Mercer

  149
  Citations

• Biogenic amines in the brain of the honeybee, Apis mellifera.

  A. R. Mercer;P. G. Mobbs;A. P. Davenport;P. D. Evans

  140
  Citations

• Characterization of a D2-like dopamine receptor (AmDOP3) in honey bee, Apis mellifera.

  Kyle T. Beggs;Ingrid S. Hamilton;Peri T. Kurshan;Julie A. Mustard

  140
  Citations

• Pharmacological dissociation of modulatory effects of serotonin in Aplysia sensory neurons

  Alison R. Mercer;Nigel J. Emptage;Thomas J. Carew

  137
  Citations

• Neurobiology and behavior of honeybees.

  Randolf Menzel;Alison Mercer

  136
  Citations

• Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees

  Vanina Vergoz;Haley A. Schreurs;Alison R. Mercer

  129
  Citations

• Analysis of two D1-like dopamine receptors from the honey bee Apis mellifera reveals agonist-independent activity

  Julie A. Mustard;Wolfgang Blenau;Ingrid S. Hamilton;Vernon K. Ward

  120
  Citations

• MODULATORY EFFECTS OF 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE ON VOLTAGE-ACTIVATED CURRENTS IN CULTURED ANTENNAL LOBE NEURONES OF THE SPHINX MOTH MANDUCA SEXTA

  Alison R. Mercer;Jon H. Hayashi;John G. Hildebrand

  117
  Citations

• Invertebrate D2 type dopamine receptor exhibits age‐based plasticity of expression in the mushroom bodies of the honeybee brain

  Merideth A. Humphries;Julie A. Mustard;Stacey J. Hunter;Alison Mercer

  116
  Citations

• Dopamine Receptor Activation By Honey Bee Queen Pheromone

  Kyle T. Beggs;Alison R. Mercer

  113
  Citations

• Honey Bee Dopamine and Octopamine Receptors Linked to Intracellular Calcium Signaling Have a Close Phylogenetic and Pharmacological Relationship

  Kyle T. Beggs;Joel D. A. Tyndall;Alison R. Mercer

  112
  Citations