ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021
Associative Conditioning Is a Robust Systemic Behavior in Unicellular Organisms: An Interspecies Comparison.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Abstract
The capacity to learn new efficient systemic behavior is a fundamental issue of contemporary biology. We have recently observed, in a preliminary analysis, the emergence of conditioned behavior in some individual amoebae cells. In these experiments, cells were able to acquire new migratory patterns and remember them for long periods of their cellular cycle, forgetting them later on. Here, following a similar conceptual framework of Pavlov's experiments, we have exhaustively studied the migration trajectories of more than 2000 individual cells belonging to three different species:
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