How food controls aggression in Drosophila.

How animals use sensory information to weigh the risks vs. benefits of behavioral decisions remains poorly understood. Inter-male aggression is triggered when animals perceive both the presence of an appetitive resource, such as food or females, and of competing conspecific males. How such signals a...

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Main Authors: Rod S Lim, Eyrún Eyjólfsdóttir, Euncheol Shin, Pietro Perona, David J Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4146546?pdf=render