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LIT-1680: Retention of Memory through Metamorphosis: Can a Moth Remember What It Learned As a Caterpillar?

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1249) from the publisher's PDF (PLoS ONE, CC BY), checked against Europe PMC's XML (PMC2248710); worth reading as the clean modern demonstration that a single conditioned aversion survives insect metamorphosis, with contamination controls and a timing dissociation that points to surviving neurons as the carrier; one odour, one lab and adult groups of 15 to 31.
Tagsneuroscience, individuation
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1249 — Retention of Memory through Metamorphosis: Can a Moth Remember What It Learned As a Caterpillar?

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Blackiston, D. J., Silva Casey, E. & Weiss, M. R. (2008). PLoS ONE, 3(3), e1736.

Read in full in NOTE-1249, from the publisher’s PDF (PLoS ONE, CC BY), checked against Europe PMC’s XML (PMC2248710).

Why this is here

The study that showed a learned association surviving metamorphosis, the radical rebuilding of the body and nervous system that stored it. For QUESTION-302.

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