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Meal Energy Content Affects Fruit Fly Memory

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This image shows appetitive long-term memory forms in fruit flies after presentation of an odorant with sugar. Musso et al. show that, during long-term memory formation, a pair of dopaminergic neurons informs the olfactory memory center about the energy content of the ingested food.

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Musso et al./<i>Cell Reports</i> 2015

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