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Serotonin mediates food-odor associative learning in the nematode Caenorhabditiselegans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Sept 2002
Nuttley William M, Atkinson-Leadbeater Karen P, Van Der Kooy Derek
Abstract excerpt
We demonstrate that Caenorhabditis elegans is able to form an association between the presence of the odorant benzaldehyde and the food content of its environment. When exposed to 100% benzaldehyde for 1 h in the absence of food the naive attractive response is reduced, and we have found that this olfactory adaptation is attenuated by the presence of food. Contrary to nonassociative (single stimulus) learning...
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