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LEARNING & MEMORY
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 32-42Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS
DOI: 10.1101/lm.7.1.32
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [P01GM033205] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [P01NS044232] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [P01 GM 33205] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [P01 NS044232] Funding Source: Medline
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Courtship and courtship conditioning are behaviors that are regulated by multiple sensory inputs, including chemosensation and vision. Globally inhibiting CaMKII activity in Drosophila disrupts courtship plasticity while leaving visual and. chemosensory perception intact. Light has been shown to modulate CaMKII-dependent memory formation in this paradigm and the circuitry for the nonvisual version of this behavior has been investigated. In this paradigm, volatile and, tactile pheromones provide the primary driving force for courtship, and memory formation is dependent upon intact mushroom bodies and parts of the central complex. In the present study, we use the GAL4/UAS binary expression system to define areas of the brain that require CaMKII for modulation of courtship conditioning in the presence of visual, as well as chemosensory, information Visual input suppressed the ability of mushroom body- and, central complex-specific CaMKII inhibition to disrupt memory formation, indicating that the cellular circuitry underlying this behavior can be remodeled by changing the driving sensory modality. These findings suggest that the potential for plasticity in courtship behavior is distributed among multiple biochemically acid anatomically distinct cellular circuits.
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