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Science 5 October 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4414, pp. 93 - 96
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4414.93
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Learning in Normal and Mutant Drosophila Larvae

EFRAIN O. ACEVES-PIÑA 1 and WILLIAM G. QUINN 1

1 Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Adult Drosophila melanogaster have previously been conditioned with shock to avoid various odors. In these experiments, larvae also sensed airborne odorants, responded to electric shock, and learned. Larval behavior paralleled adult behavior for (i) a mutant, smellblind, which failed to respond to odorants; (ii) three mutants, dunce, turnip, and cabbage, which were deficient in olfactory learning ability; and (iii) a mutant heterozygote, turnip/+, which learned but also forgot rapidly.

Submitted on February 28, 1979
Revised on May 29, 1979


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