TY  - JOUR
A1  - Widmann, Annekathrin
A1  - Artinger, Marc
A1  - Biesinger, Lukas
A1  - Boepple, Kathrin
A1  - Peters, Christina
A1  - Schlechter, Jana
A1  - Selcho, Mareike
A1  - Thum, Andreas S.
T1  - Genetic Dissection of Aversive Associative Olfactory Learning and Memory in Drosophila Larvae
JF  - PLoS Genetics
N2  - Memory formation is a highly complex and dynamic process. It consists of different phases, which depend on various neuronal and molecular mechanisms. In adult Drosophila it was shown that memory formation after aversive Pavlovian conditioning includes—besides other forms—a labile short-term component that consolidates within hours to a longer-lasting memory. Accordingly, memory formation requires the timely controlled action of different neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators and molecules that were initially identified by classical forward genetic approaches. Compared to adult Drosophila, memory formation was only sporadically analyzed at its larval stage. Here we deconstruct the larval mnemonic organization after aversive olfactory conditioning. We show that after odor-high salt conditioning larvae form two parallel memory phases; a short lasting component that depends on cyclic adenosine 3’5’-monophosphate (cAMP) signaling and synapsin gene function. In addition, we show for the first time for Drosophila larvae an anesthesia resistant component, which relies on radish and bruchpilot gene function, protein kinase C activity, requires presynaptic output of mushroom body Kenyon cells and dopamine function. Given the numerical simplicity of the larval nervous system this work offers a unique prospect for studying memory formation of defined specifications, at full-brain scope with single-cell, and single-synapse resolution.
KW  - genetic dissection
KW  - Drosophila
KW  - memory formation
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-166672
VL  - 12
IS  - 10
ER  -