The gross morphology of the ellipsoid body is normal in animals expressing Nmdar2dsRNA.Scer\UAS.cWa under the control of Scer\GAL4Feb170.
1 day memory is impaired after spaced training, but not after massed training in an olfactory associative conditioning assay in flies expressing Nmdar2dsRNA.Scer\UAS.cWa under the control of Scer\GAL4Feb170. 3 hour memory after one session of training is normal in these flies.
Use of the temperature sensitive Scer\GAL80ts.αTub84B allele is used to restrict Scer\GAL4 expression indicates that the disruption of 1 day memory caused by expression of Nmdar2dsRNA.Scer\UAS.cWa under the control of Scer\GAL4Feb170 is due to an effect on consolidation and storage of long term memory, and not due to an effect on retrieval of memory.
1 day memory after spaced or massed training in an olfactory associative conditioning assay is not affected in flies expressing Nmdar2dsRNA.Scer\UAS.cWa under the control of Scer\GAL4ey-OK107. 3 hour anesthesia-sensitive memory is impaired in these flies compared to controls.
Nmdar1RNAi.UAS.cWa, Nmdar2RNAi.UAS.cWa, Scer\GAL4G0431 has abnormal memory phenotype
1 day memory is impaired after spaced training, but not after massed training in an olfactory associative conditioning assay in flies co-expressing Nmdar1dsRNA.Scer\UAS.cWa and Nmdar2dsRNA.Scer\UAS.cWa under the control of Scer\GAL4G0431. The defect in memory after spaced training is still seen if the temperature sensitive Scer\GAL80ts.αTub84B allele is used to restrict Scer\GAL4 expression to the adult stage.