Abstract
Habituation and spontaneous recovery from habituation to tap were studied across development in C. elegans. Unlike adult worms, larval worms do not consistently swim backwards to tap, but reverse half of the time and accelerate forward half of the time. In adult worms, the tap response is produced by the integration of two competing circuits: The head touch circuit, mediated by ALM and AVM sensory neurons, produces backward movement (reversals); the tail touch circuit, mediated by PLM neurons, produces forward movement (accelerations). Because the response type changes over development, habituation of each of the subcircuits was studied separately. Habituation of the head touch circuit was studied by laser ablating PLM, and habituation of the tail circuit was studied by ablating ALM. Worms were tested at six stages of development at either 10- or 60-s interstimulus intervals. All stages of development showed normal habituation and spontaneous recovery at both interstimulus intervals.
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