Use of spatial information and search strategies in a water maze analog in Drosophila melanogaster.

Learning the spatial organization of the environment is crucial to fitness in most animal species. Understanding proximate and ultimate factors underpinning spatial memory is thus a major goal in the study of animal behavior. Despite considerable interest in various aspects of its behavior and biolo...

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Main Authors: Julien Foucaud, James G Burns, Frederic Mery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2997081?pdf=render