title: Imprinting: When Early Life Memories Make Food Smell Bad.
abstract: A recent study has found that pathogen exposure early in the life of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans leads to a long-lasting aversion that requires distinct sets of neurons for the formation and retrieval of the imprinted memory.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Bahía Blanca, UNS-CONICET, B-8000FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Electronic address: drayes@criba.edu.ar.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rayes
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. Electronic address: mark.alkema@umassmed.edu.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Alkema
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification*; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000502:physiology*; D054884:Host-Pathogen Interactions; D007173:Imprinting, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D007814:Larva / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology