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Effects of sex and insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1 signaling on performance in an associative learning paradigm in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2006
Vellai Tibor, McCulloch Diana, Gems David, Kovács Attila L
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Learning is an adaptive change in behavior in response to environmental stimuli. In mammals, there is a distinct female bias to learn skills that is still unprecedented in other animal taxa. Here we have investigated the biological determinants of performance in an associative learning paradigm in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Using an assay of chemotactic reactions associated with food deprivation,...
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