Publisher Summary This chapter presents a overview on testing associative learning in
Drosophila. The chapter presents examples of stimulating achievements in the field and …

The analysis of learning and memory in Drosophila can occur on many levels. The original
work presented in this thesis includes behavioral, genetic, biochemical, and molecular …

Interest in Drosophila melanogaster as a model system for studying associative learning has
increased dramatically in recent years (eg, Stipp, 1991), because the well-understood …

Over a decade ago, the last mutagenesis to generate mutations affecting associative
learning in Drosophila ended. In all, about 3500 strains, mutagenized with ethylmethane …

Ten years ago, impressed with the power of genetics applied to straight molecular biology,
we set out to study learning using single-gene mutations. We were attracted to this problem …

Drosophila melanogaster has been cultured with shock to avoid various odors. Mutants that
failed to learn this task have been isolated. Here we report tests on these mutants for more …

Animal behavior relies on sensory input. When sensory information is sent to the brain it can
sometimes be encoded in the form of memory and later retrieved. Through memory …

Ambulatory organisms are faced with the task of surviving in a rapidly changing
environment. As a consequence, they have acquired the ability to learn. Most learning …

An understanding of associative learning is facilitated if it can be analyzed in a simple
animal like the fruit fly Drosophila. Here, we introduce the first visual associative learning …

In the decade or so since S. Benzer and coworkers at CalTech began to isolate mutations
that affect learning and memory in Drosophila, much work has revealed interesting, if not …