Reassessment of the effect of biological rhythm mutations on learning in Drosophila melanogaster.

doi:10.1007/BF00194897

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Reassessment of the effect of biological rhythm mutations on learning in Drosophila melanogaster.

Journal of comparative physiology. A, Sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology - 1 Dec 1991

Gailey D A, Villella A, Tully T

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A link between learning deficits and circadian period-lengthening mutations in Drosophila melanogaster previously has been reported. Mutant long-period males performed poorly in two learning assays involving experience-dependent courtship inhibition. In one, normal males that have courted fertili...

Topics

Animals
Association Learning
Conditioning, Classical
Conditioning, Psychological
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Fertilization
Learning
Male
Mutation
Periodicity
Sexual Behavior, Animal

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