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The ventilatory behavior of Lymnaea stagnalis (surfacing and opening the respiratory orifice, the pneumostome) can be operantly conditioned1. Snails placed in severely hypoxic water (< 1 ml 02 .L-1; created by gassing with nitrogen) are normally driven to increase their rate of ventilatory behavior1. However, if a noxious tactile stimulus is applied to the pneumostome at the time of ventilation, the animals can be conditioned not to breathe. They learn to self-impose hypoxia, and they remember to do so whenever they are placed in the nitrogen-gassed water. How is Lymnaea able to do so; most animals typically exhibit a hypoxic response designed to rectify oxygen limitation?
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Taylor, B.E., Smyth, K., Remmers, J.E., Lukowiak, K. (2001). Metabolic Consequences of Hypdxic Conditioning in Lymnaea Stagnalis. In: Poon, CS., Kazemi, H. (eds) Frontiers in Modeling and Control of Breathing. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 499. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1375-9_35
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