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A Bayesian Approach to Social Structure Uncovers Cryptic Regulation of Group Dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster.
The American naturalist - 1 Jun 2015
Foley Brad R, Saltz Julia B, Nuzhdin Sergey V, Marjoram Paul
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the mechanisms that give rise to social structure is central to predicting the evolutionary and ecological outcomes of social interactions. Modeling this process is challenging, because all individuals simultaneously behave in ways that shape their social environments--a process called social niche construction (SNC). In earlier work, we demonstrated that aggression acts as an SNC trait in fruit...
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