Fig 2. Adsl-1(RNAi) animal response in a gustatory plasticity assay is robust but distinct from control animals.
(A) Diagram of the gustatory plasticity assay (created with Biorender.com). Animals are washed off the plates with either CTX buffer or CTX buffer with 100 mM salt and left in a conical tube for 15 minutes with or without food. They are then placed on a chemotaxis assay plate for 30 minutes. (B) Gustatory plasticity assay with 100 mM sodium chloride as the conditioned stimulus. adsl-1(RNAi) animals respond robustly but distinctly from control animals. (C) Gustatory plasticity assay with 100 mM potassium chloride as the conditioned stimulus. adsl-1(RNAi) animals respond robustly but distinctly from control animals. (D) Gustatory plasticity assays in the absence or presence (hatched bars) of food. Neither adsl-1(RNAi) nor control animals alter their chemotactic response when food is included in the preincubation with salt. Each dot represents the value from a single biological replicate that included (B) 22<n<238, (C) 33<n<266, (D) 15<n<65 animals per condition per replicate. Error bars represent standard error of the mean (SEM) * p< 0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p < .0001, **** p<0.0001 using (B-C) 2-way or (D) 3-way ANOVA with Bonferroni correction.