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ReviewLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2010

Short-term memories in Drosophila are governed by general and specific genetic systems.

Troy Zars

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Review in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Place learning overrides innate behaviors inLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2018
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  4. A Presynaptic Function of Shank Protein inThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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  8. Parallel pathways for cross-modal memory retrieval in Drosophila.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013
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  11. The influence of natural variation at the foraging gene on thermotolerance in adult Drosophila in a narrow temperature range.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2011
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  15. Place memory formation in Drosophila is independent of proper octopamine signaling.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Troy ZarsDivision of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. zarst@missouri.edu

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a dynamic environment, there is an adaptive value in the ability of animals to acquire and express memories. That both simple and complex animals can learn is therefore not surprising. How animals have solved this problem genetically and anatomically probably lies somewhere in a range between a single molecular/anatomical mechanism that applies to all situations and a specialized mechanism for each learning situation. With an intermediate level of nervous system complexity, the fruit fly Drosophila has both general and specific resources to support different short-term memories. Some biochemical/cellular mechanisms are common between learning situations, indicating that flies do not have a dedicated system for each learning context. The opposite possible extreme does not apply to Drosophila either. Specialization in some biochemical and anatomical terms suggests that there is not a single learning mechanism that applies to all conditions. The distributed basis of learning in Drosophila implies that these systems were independently selected.

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AnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedBehavior, AnimalDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsMemory, Short-TermNervous SystemDrosophila Proteins

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PMID20418404
PMCPMC2862408

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