dunce, a mutant of Drosophila deficient in learning.

Yadin Dudai(California Institute of Technology), Yuh Nung Jan(California Institute of Technology), David M. Byers(California Institute of Technology), William G. Quinn(Princeton University), Seymour Benzer(California Institute of Technology)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
May 1, 1976
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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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