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Individual, but not population asymmetries, are modulated by social environment and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster.
Scientific reports - 11 Mar 2020
Versace Elisabetta, Caffini Matteo, Werkhoven Zach, de Bivort Benjamin L
Abstract excerpt
Theory predicts that social interactions can induce an alignment of behavioral asymmetries between individuals (i.e., population-level lateralization), but evidence for this effect is mixed. To understand how interaction with other individuals affects behavioral asymmetries, we systematically manipulated the social environment of Drosophila melanogaster, testing individual flies and dyads (female-male,...
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