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Cellular memory in an invertebrate

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Development and Regeneration of the Nervous System

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The ability to learn from experience is an essential survival tool, and it is reasonable to suppose that the molecular mechanisms required for learning developed early in evolution. Consequently it is probable that some of these mechanisms were conserved as species multiplied and diversified into the available ecological niches. The acceptance of this argument allows us to study the cellular substrates of memory in accessible animal models, and to extrapolate from the animal model to human memory with some confidence. However, convergent evolution of organ function is well established. Because learning and memory are operational definitions, and in the strict sense do not exist unless an appropriate behavioural change occurs, evolutionary convergence of function remains a pitfall for attempts to generalize molecular mechanisms of learning.

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  1. Developmental Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, UMIST, Manchester, UK

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  2. Department of Structural Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

    M. Ferguson

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Huddie, P.L., Alkon, D.L., Lester, D.S. (1992). Cellular memory in an invertebrate. In: Nona, S., Cronly-Dillon, J., Stafford, C., Ferguson, M. (eds) Development and Regeneration of the Nervous System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2348-8_13

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