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Drosophila Ortholog of Mammalian Immediate-Early Gene Npas4 is Specifically Responsive to Reversal Learning

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Acknowledgements

We thank helpful comments on this study from Bo Lei, Yinzhong Zhou and Lingling Wang, and experimental help from Lianzhang Wang. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970955 and 31700912).

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Liu, T., Wang, L. & Li, Q. Drosophila Ortholog of Mammalian Immediate-Early Gene Npas4 is Specifically Responsive to Reversal Learning. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 99–102 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-020-00566-8

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