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JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 106, Issue -, Pages 47-54Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.08.004
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Learning and memory; Mushroom bodies; Drosophila larva; Connectome
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- DFG [TH1584/1-1, TH1584/3-1]
- Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz
- Elite Program of the Baden-Wurttemberg Stiftung
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The Drosophila larva is an attractive model system to study fundamental questions in the field of neuroscience. Like the adult fly, the larva offers a seemingly unlimited genetic toolbox, which allows one to visualize, silence or activate neurons down to the single cell level. This, combined with its simplicity in terms of cell numbers, offers a useful system to study the neuronal correlates of complex processes including associative odor-taste learning and memory formation. Here, we summarize the current knowledge about odor-taste learning and memory at the behavioral level and integrate the recent progress on the larval connectome to shed light on the sub-circuits that allow Drosophila larvae to integrate present sensory input in the context of past experience and to elicit an appropriate behavioral response.
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