PMID: 3772825Sep 1, 1986Paper

Post-ingestive food-aversion learning to amino acid deficient diets by the terrestrial slug Limax maximus

Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
K Delaney, A Gelperin

Abstract

An agar-based artificial diet containing carbohydrates, fats and twenty amino acids was constructed. This diet is highly palatable and nutritionally complete for Limax maximus as demonstrated by significant ingestion on first encounter, consistent ingestion on subsequent days and good growth of young slugs fed this diet. Removing methionine, an essential amino acid, from the complete diet produces a food which is initially as palatable as the complete diet, but after one day's intake the amount of this deficient diet eaten is greatly reduced. Removing alanine, a nonessential amino acid, does not produce any decrement in feeding relative to the complete diet. A single meal can be sufficient for establishing the aversion to the deficient diet. Following seven days of feeding on the deficient diet the aversion is retained with little or no attenuation for at least 30 days and does not generalize to either a known 'safe' food or a novel food. Evidence of a mild neophobia towards the artificial diet which attenuated after one or two meals was seen. The learned aversion to the deficient diet is reversible if slugs are repeatedly fed the complete diet following feeding on the deficient diet. Also, slugs initially fed the complete diet...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1992·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. A, Comparative Physiology·D W GietzenA Gelperin
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