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The role of dopamine in Drosophila larval classical olfactory conditioning.
PloS one - 12 Jun 2009
Selcho Mareike, Pauls Dennis, Han Kyung-An, Stocker Reinhard F, Thum Andreas S
Abstract excerpt
Learning and memory is not an attribute of higher animals. Even Drosophila larvae are able to form and recall an association of a given odor with an aversive or appetitive gustatory reinforcer. As the Drosophila larva has turned into a particularly simple model for studying odor processing, a detailed neuronal and functional map of the olfactory pathway is available up to the third order neurons in the mushroom...
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