Fruit flies learn to avoid odours associated with virulent infection

While learning to avoid toxic food is common in mammals and occurs in some insects, learning to avoid cues associated with infectious pathogens has received little attention. We demonstrate that Drosophila melanogaster show olfactory learning in response to infection with their virulent intestinal p...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Babin, Aurélie, Kolly, Sylvain, Schneider, Franziska, Dolivo, Vassilissa, Zini, Marco, Kawecki, Tadeusz J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2014
Subjects:
Animal Behaviour
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3982440/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24598110
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0048
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items