Odour avoidance learning in the larva of Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of biosciences

Sukant Khurana¹  Obaid Siddiqi1¹  Mohammed Bin AbuBaker¹ 

[1] Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 560 065, India$$

关键词: Drosophila melanogaster;    learning and memory;    memory phases;    olfaction;   

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来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Drosophila larvae can be trained to avoid odours associated with electric shock. We describe here, an improved method of aversive conditioning and a procedure for decomposing learning retention curve that enables us to do a quantitative analysis of memory phases, short term (STM), middle term (MTM) and long term (LTM) as a function of training cycles. The same method of analysis when applied to learning mutants dunce, amnesiac, rutabaga and radish reveals memory deficits characteristic of the mutant strains.

【 授权许可】

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