title: The radish gene reveals a memory component with variable temporal properties.
abstract: Memory phases, dependent on different neural and molecular mechanisms, strongly influence memory performance. Our understanding, however, of how memory phases interact is far from complete. In Drosophila, aversive olfactory learning is thought to progress from short-term through long-term memory phases. Another memory phase termed anesthesia resistant memory, dependent on the radish gene, influences memory hours after aversive olfactory learning. How does the radish-dependent phase influence memory performance in different tasks? It is found that the radish memory component does not scale with the stability of several memory traces, indicating a specific recruitment of this component to influence different memories, even within minutes of learning.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America.
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: LaFerriere
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Speichinger
authors.forename: Astrid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stromhaug
authors.forename: Troy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zars
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001066:Appetite / Q000502:physiology; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009154:Mutation; D055696:Olfactory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins; C515827:rad protein, Drosophila