Long-term recognition memory of individual conspecifics is associated with telencephalic expression of Egr-1 in the electric fish apteronotus leptorhynchus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2666-2692

  Harvey Girard, Erik ^a   Tweedle, Jessica ^a   Ironstone, Joel ^b   Cuddy, Martin ^c   Ellis, William ^a   Maler, Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Ironstone Medical   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apteronotus leptorhynchus; Egr 1; memory; telencephalon

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; EGR 1 GENE; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HABITUATION; HEAD; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RNA PROBE; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; CUES; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ELECTRIC ORGAN; FISH PROTEINS; GYMNOTIFORMES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RNA, MESSENGER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TELENCEPHALON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954579201     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22358     Document Type: Article

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