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PMID: 18026734 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Natural food odours elicit different behavioural responses in snails. The tentacle carries an olfactory organ, and it either protracts toward a stimulating carrot odour or retraces in a startle-like fashion away from a cucumber odour. The tentacle retraction to cucumber was still present after the snails were fed cucumber during inter-trial periods. Also, snails without any food experience displayed a longer latency to the first bite of cucumber than of carrot and rejected cucumber more often. After tasting these foods, the latency to carrot was not affected while the latency to and number of rejections of cucumber decreased. These results suggest that initial repulsive features of food odour can be only partially compensated by olfactory learning and feeding experience. In the present study, we demonstrated that an invertebrate can be repulsed or attracted by the same natural odour at the same time and that these behavioural responses are likely aimed at achieving different physiologically relevant goals. |
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Authors:
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E S Nikitin; T A Korshunova; I S Zakharov; P M Balaban |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2007-11-17 |
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Title: Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology Volume: 194 ISSN: 0340-7594 ISO Abbreviation: J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural. Behav. Physiol. Publication Date: 2008 Jan |
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Created Date: 2008-01-08 Completed Date: 2008-05-02 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101141792 Medline TA: J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol Country: Germany |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 19-26 Citation Subset: IM |
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, RAS, 5A Butlerova Str., Moscow 117485, Russia. nikitin@ihna.ru |
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Animals Association Learning / physiology* Avoidance Learning / physiology Conditioning, Classical / physiology Feeding Behavior / physiology* Food Preferences / physiology Goals Helix (Snails) / physiology* Reaction Time / physiology Receptors, Odorant / physiology Recognition (Psychology) / physiology* Sense Organs / physiology Smell / physiology* |
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0/Receptors, Odorant |
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