Social learning: what do Drosophila have to offer?

Ellouise Leadbeater

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.016

Social learning: what do Drosophila have to offer?

Curr Biol. 2009 May 12;19(9):R378-80. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.016.

Author

Ellouise Leadbeater¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.

PMID: 19439263
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.016

Abstract

The recent finding that female Drosophila copy the mate-choice criteria of other females introduces a mainstream model species to the study of how animals use social information.

Publication types

Comment
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution*
Choice Behavior / physiology*
Drosophila melanogaster / physiology*
Female
Imitative Behavior / physiology*
Sexual Behavior, Animal / physiology*
Social Perception*