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. 1976 May;73(5):1684-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.73.5.1684.

dunce, a mutant of Drosophila deficient in learning

Y Dudai, Y N Jan, D Byers, W G Quinn, S Benzer

dunce, a mutant of Drosophila deficient in learning

Y Dudai et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1976 May.

Abstract

Normal Drosophilia learn to avoid an odorant associated with electric shock. An X-linked mutant, dunce, has been isolated that fails to display this learning in spite of being able to sense the odorant and electric shock and showing essentially normal behavior in other respects.

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