Genetically encoded calcium indicators are becoming available in social insects.
After the first expression in honeybees (biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20), now the first GCaMP-expressing ants have been created and used to study the coding of alarm pheromones in the antennal lobe.

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

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