Data from: Long-term social memory of mate copying in Drosophila melanogaster is localized in the mushroom bodies

Long-term social memory (LTSM) is a key feature to elicit the cultural
inheritance of behaviour independently of genetics. However, the
neurobiological basis of LTSM remains largely unknown. We previously used
the Drosophila animal model, which is known to perform mate copying
through observational learning of the mate choice of conspecifics to show
that the expression of the rutabaga gene, a
calcium/calmodulin-dependent adenylyl cyclase (AC-Rut+) that acts as a
coincidence detector enabling associative learning, is necessary and
sufficient in the γ-Kenyon cells (KCs) of the mushroom bodies (MBs). Here,
we show that the expression of AC-Rut+ in both the g- and the
a/b-KCs is required for LTSM involving de novo protein synthesis in a
mate-copying context, whether using demonstrations involving real flies or
involving pictures of copulating conspecifics. Thus, pathways of short-
and long-term memory show considerable overlap in the MBs across social vs
asocial learning contexts.