Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27138222›Full record

ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2016

Training Lymnaea in the presence of a predator scent results in a long-lasting ability to form enhanced long-term memory.

Jeremy Forest, Hiroshi Sunada, Shawn Dodd, Ken Lukowiak

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Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. DNA Methylation Machinery in Gastropod Mollusks.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  2. Article
  3. What can we teach Lymnaea and what can Lymnaea teach us?Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Inference of DNA methylation patterns in molluscs.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jeremy ForestHotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
Hiroshi SunadaHotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
Shawn DoddHotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
Ken LukowiakHotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada. lukowiak@ucalgary.ca.
University of Calgary · CAUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lymnaea exposed to crayfish effluent (CE) gain an enhanced ability to form long-term memory (LTM). We test the hypothesis that a single CE exposure and operant conditioning training leads to long lasting changes in the capability of snails to form LTM when tested in pond water four weeks later. We trained both juvenile and adult snails with a single 0.5 h training session in CE and show that LTM was present 24 h later. Snails trained in a similar manner in just pond water show no LTM. We then asked if such training in CE conferred enhanced memory forming capabilities on these snails four weeks later. That is, would LTM be formed in these snails four weeks later following a single 0.5 h training session in pond water? We found that both adult and juvenile snails previously trained in CE one month previously had enhanced LTM formation abilities. The injection of a DNA methylation blocker, 5-AZA, prior to training in adult snails blocked enhanced LTM formation four weeks later. Finally, this enhanced LTM forming ability was not passed on to the next generation of snails.

Indexed as

LymnaeaMemory, Long-TermAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAstacoideaAzacitidineConditioning, OperantDecitabineDNA MethylationEnzyme InhibitorsEpigenesis, GeneticFresh WaterPondsRespirationSmellTime FactorsAzacitidineDecitabineEnzyme InhibitorsEpigenetic changeLong-term memoryLymnaeaPredator scent

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PMID27138222
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