Odour-shock learning

Connolly et al. (1996) transgenically expressed a mutant Gas protein (CG 2835, using the G mutant) in the mushroom bodies which constitutively activates the cyclase, hence presumably rendering any modulation of cyclase activity impaired. This leads to an abolishment of memory scores after odour-shock learning. Whether a knockdown of the rut-cyclase by means of RNA interference would lead to a similar abolishment of short-term odour-shock memory is unknown. 

Memory scores for odour-shock learning decay characteristically faster than for odour-sugar learning (Tempel et al. 1983) and... 

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