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SUBMITTER: Ha HI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3038580 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ha Heon-ick HI Hendricks Michael M Shen Yu Y Gabel Christopher V CV Fang-Yen Christopher C Qin Yuqi Y Colón-Ramos Daniel D Shen Kang K Samuel Aravinthan D T AD Zhang Yun Y
Neuron 20101201 6
Many animals use their olfactory systems to learn to avoid dangers, but how neural circuits encode naive and learned olfactory preferences, and switch between those preferences, is poorly understood. Here, we map an olfactory network, from sensory input to motor output, which regulates the learned olfactory aversion of Caenorhabditis elegans for the smell of pathogenic bacteria. Naive animals prefer smells of pathogens but animals trained with pathogens lose this attraction. We find that two dif ...[more]