Social learning about egg-laying substrates in fruitflies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4323-4328

  Sarin, Sachin ^a   Dukas, Reuven ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Fruitflies; Social behaviour; Social learning

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

EGG; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLY; PHEROMONE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG LAYING; EVOLUTION; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LEARNING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 72749127556     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1294     Document Type: Article

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