Journal article
The Value of Patch-Choice Copying in Fruit Flies
Abstract
Many animals copy the choices of others but the functional and mechanistic explanations for copying are still not fully resolved. We relied on novel behavioral protocols to quantify the value of patch-choice copying in fruit flies. In a titration experiment, we quantified how much nutritional value females were willing to trade for laying eggs on patches already occupied by larvae (social patches). Females were highly sensitive to nutritional …
Authors
Golden S; Dukas R
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 9, No. 11,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0112381
ISSN
1932-6203