Drosophila egg-laying site selection as a system to study simple decision-making processes

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5870, 2008, Pages 1679-1683

  Yang, Chung Hui ^a   Belawat, Priyanka ^b   Hafen, Ernst ^b   Jan, Lily Y ^a   Jan, Yuh Nung ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELAXIN 3; SUCROSE;

DECISION MAKING; EGG PRODUCTION; FLY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; PEPTIDE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SITE SELECTION; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OVIPOSITION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 41149181443     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151842     Document Type: Article

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