Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Long-term memory is formed immediately without the need for protein synthesis-dependent consolidation in Drosophila

  • Bohan Zhao,
  • Jiameng Sun,
  • Xuchen Zhang,
  • Han Mo,
  • Yijun Niu,
  • Qian Li,
  • Lianzhang Wang,
  • Yi Zhong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12436-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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New protein synthesis is known to be indispensable for the consolidation of long-term memory. Here, the authors report that an olfactory memory can be successfully recalled after 14 days without protein synthesis when the training context is also provided in addition to the conditioned odor.