A mutant exhibiting abnormal habituation behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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The acquisition and retention of information by the nervous system are major processes of learning. Habituation is a simple learning process that occurs during repeated exposure to harmless stimuli. C. elegans is habituated when repeatedly given mechanical stimuli and recover from the habituation when the stimuli are stopped. A habituation abnormal mutant was isolated and assigned to a new gene hab-1 whose...

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