Learning and learning choice in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

摘要: The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an attractive model organism to study the behavioral plasticity for its simple system and ability respond diverse environmental stimuli, such as touch, smell, taste temperature. Learning in C. encompasses both non-associative learning associative learning. Till now, themotaxis chemotaxis are two major paradigms there at least 6 forms of chemotaxis-mediated Three research systems have also been explored mechanism choice worms. This review will discuss forms, models, genetic molecular regulation elegans.