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Mushroom bodies
The mushroom bodies or ''corpora pedunculata'' are a pair of structures in the brain of insects, other arthropods and some annelids notably the ragworm.〔^ Tomer, R.; Denes, A. S.; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Arendt, D. (2010). "Profiling by image registration reveals common origin of annelid mushroom bodies and vertebrate pallium". ''Cell'' 142 (5): 800–809. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.07.043. PMID 20813265〕 They are also known to play a role in olfactory learning and memory. In most insects, the mushroom bodies and the lateral horn are the two higher brain regions that receive olfactory information from the antennal lobe via projection neurons.
==Structure==
Mushroom bodies are usually described as neuropils, i.e. as dense networks of neuronal processes (dendrite and axon terminals) and glia. They get their name from their roughly hemispherical ''calyx'', a protuberance that is joining to the rest of the brain by a central nerve tract or ''peduncle''. They were first identified in 1850 by the French biologist Félix Dujardin.〔Dujardin, F. 1850. Mémoire sur le système nerveux des insectes. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. 14: 195-206.〕
Most of our current knowledge of the mushroom bodies comes from studies of a few species of insect, especially the cockroach ''Periplaneta americana'', the honey bee ''Apis mellifera'', the locust and the fruit fly ''Drosophila melanogaster''. Studies of fruit fly mushroom bodies have been particularly important for understanding the genetic basis of mushroom body functioning, since their genome has been sequenced and a vast number of tools to manipulate their gene expression exist.
In the insect brain, the peduncles of the mushroom bodies extend through the midbrain. They are mainly composed of the long, densely packed nerve fibres of the Kenyon cells, the intrinsic neurons of the mushroom bodies. These cells have been found in the mushroom bodies of all species that have been investigated, though their number varies; for example fruit flies have around 2,500 whereas cockroaches have about 200,000.
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