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Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Aug 2007
Mery Frederic, Belay Amsale T, So Anthony K-C, Sokolowski Marla B, Kawecki Tadeusz J
Abstract excerpt
Knowing which genes contribute to natural variation in learning and memory would help us understand how differences in these cognitive traits evolve among populations and species. We show that a natural polymorphism at the foraging (for) locus, which encodes a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG), affects associative olfactory learning in Drosophila melanogaster. In an assay that tests the ability to associate an...
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