Molecular and Cellular Circuits Underlying Caenorhabditis elegans Olfactory Plasticity

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue , 2013, Pages 112-123

  Alcedo, Joy ^a   Zhang, Yun ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging effects; Olfactory adaptation; Olfactory conditioning; Olfactory imprinting; Olfactory learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886053820     PISSN: 15697339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-415823-8.00010-1     Document Type: Chapter

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