C. elegans positive butanone learning, short-term, and long-term associative memory assays

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 49, 2011, Pages

  Kauffman, Amanda ^a   Parsons, Lance ^a   Stein, Geneva ^a   Wills, Airon ^a   Kaletsky, Rachel ^a   Murphy, Coleen ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80355128130     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2490     Document Type: Article

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