Invertebrate Learning: What Can't a Worm Learn?

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  • Catharine H Rankin
چکیده

The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans can learn and remember the stimuli it encounters, the environment it is in, and its own physiological state. Analyses of mutations in C. elegans that affect different aspects of experience are beginning to address the nature of learning.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Current Biology

دوره 14  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004