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POPULATIONS of Drosophila melanogaster can be taught to avoid specific odours which they have experienced in conjunction with electric shock1,2, and several single-gene mutants have been isolated which fail to learn this task (ref. 3, and our unpublished data). Here we describe a mutant, amnesiac, which learns normally but forgets four times as quickly as wild-type flies.
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QUINN, W., SZIBER, P. & BOOKER, R. The Drosophila memory mutant amnesiac. Nature 277, 212–214 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277212a0
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