… This paper arose from a workshop organized by Catharine Rankin and held August 15–18,
2007 at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) at the University of British …

This article reviews the literature on learning and memory in the soil-dwelling nematode
Caenorhabditis elegans. Paradigms include nonassociative learning, associative learning, and …

… Rai and Rankin (20) found that the body size of isolated worms could be rescued if they
were transferred into colonies before the end of stage L3. This suggests that exposure to other …

We designed a real-time computer vision system, the Multi-Worm Tracker (MWT), which can
simultaneously quantify the behavior of dozens of Caenorhabditis elegans on a Petri plate …

… to be mediated at least in part by the well-studied touch circuit 4'5'7, since mutants (mec-3
and mec-4) with defective touch receptors 5 showed no response to the tap stimulus (Rankin, …

… Since both touch and tap are mechanical stimuli, and since a pilot study involving genetic
lesions of the touch circuit showed altered response to tap (Rankin and Chalfie, 1989), the …

… trp-4 encodes a TRPN channel that has been shown to act as a stretch receptor in C.
elegans interneurons (Li et al., 2006) and is also expressed in the CEP and ADE dopaminergic …

… the underlying neural circuitry is identified (Wicks and Rankin, 1995a). Although the detail
of … would be equivalent to the single-channel conductance of an open channel multiplied by …

… eleganswe have shown that although eat-4 worms show profound short-term habituation,
they do not show 24 h retention of LTH with taps (Rose and Rankin, unpubl.). This further …

In 4 experiments, the factors that affect the rate of habituation, the degree of habituation, and
the rate of recovery from habituation in a simple reflex circuit in Caenorhabditis elegans …