WBPhenotype:0002597
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gustatory learning abnormal
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Variations in the behavioral plasticity induced by the integration of two sensory signals (one of which is gustation (taste)) compared to control. For example, C. elegans animals can be trained to associate the taste of a substance (e.g. sodium chloride, normally an attractant) to an aversive stimuli (e.g. starvation) so that trained worms will avoid the substance in the absence of the aversive stimuli. Animals with this phenotype have an abnormal response to the trained stimuli compared to controls. |