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Effects of inbreeding on aversive learning in Drosophila.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Nov 2010
Nepoux V, Haag C R, Kawecki T J
Abstract excerpt
Inbreeding adversely affects life history traits as well as various other fitness-related traits, but its effect on cognitive traits remains largely unexplored, despite their importance to fitness of many animals under natural conditions. We studied the effects of inbreeding on aversive learning (avoidance of an odour previously associated with mechanical shock) in multiple inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster...
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