title: Odour avoidance learning in the larva of Drosophila melanogaster.
abstract: Drosophila larvae can be trained to avoid odours associated with electric shock. We describe here, an improved method of aversive conditioning and a procedure for decomposing learning retention curve that enables us to do a quantitative analysis of memory phases, short term (STM), middle term (MTM) and long term (LTM) as a function of training cycles. The same method of analysis when applied to learning mutants dunce, amnesiac, rutabaga and radish reveals memory deficits characteristic of the mutant strains.
authors.affiliation: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 560 065, India.
authors.forename: Sukant
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.forename: Mohammed Bin
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Abu Baker
authors.forename: Obaid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Siddiqi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D004597:Electroshock; D007814:Larva / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory; D009812:Odorants