Egg laying decisions in Drosophila are consistent with foraging costs of larval progeny.

Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and context-dependent manner. Oviposition site selection by the female fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been suggested to be a simple and genetically tractable model for understanding the biological mechan...

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Main Authors: Nicholas U Schwartz, Lixian Zhong, Andrew Bellemer, W Daniel Tracey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3365076?pdf=render

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