Gut flora odours attract Drosophila to best squidgy fruit
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Fruit flies learn to avoid odours associated with virulent infection.
While learning to avoid toxic food is common in mammals and occurs in some insects, learning to avoid cues associated with infectious pathogens has received little attention. We demonstrate that Drosophila melanogaster show olfactory learning in response to infection with their virulent intestinal pathogen Pseudomonas entomophila. This pathogen was not aversive to taste when added to food. None...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.105866