Social foraging extends associative odor-food memory expression in an automated learning assay for Drosophila
| العنوان: | Social foraging extends associative odor-food memory expression in an automated learning assay for Drosophila |
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| المؤلفون: | Paul Szyszka, Cansu Tafrali, Aarti Sehdev, Yunusa Garba Mohammed |
| المصدر: | Journal of Experimental Biology. |
| بيانات النشر: | The Company of Biologists, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Communication, Physiology, business.industry, Repertoire, fungi, Foraging, Aquatic Science, Biology, Content-addressable memory, biology.organism_classification, Attraction, Associative learning, Mate choice, Expression (architecture), Insect Science, Biological neural network, Animal Science and Zoology, business, Drosophila, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Associative property, Social behavior |
| الوصف: | Animals socially interact during foraging and share information about the quality and location of food sources. The mechanisms of social information transfer during foraging have been mostly studied at the behavioral level, and its underlying neural mechanisms are largely unknown. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has become a model for studying the neural bases of social information transfer, as fruit flies show a rich repertoire of social behaviors and provide a well-developed genetic toolbox to monitor and manipulate neuronal activity. Social information transfer has already been characterized for fruit flies’ egg laying, mate choice, foraging and aversive associative learning, however the role of social information transfer on associative odor-food learning during foraging are unknown. Here we present an automated learning and memory assay for walking flies that allows studying the effect of group size on social interactions and on the formation and expression of associative odor-food memories. We found that both inter-fly attraction and the duration of odor-food memory expression increase with group size. We discuss possible behavioral and neural mechanisms of this social effect on odor-food memory expression. This study opens up opportunities to investigate how social interactions are relayed in the neural circuitry of learning and memory expression. |
| تدمد: | 1477-9145 0022-0949 |
| DOI: | 10.1242/jeb.207241 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::296b52a65bd4153785cc8b6d7f2e115a https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.207241 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....296b52a65bd4153785cc8b6d7f2e115a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14779145 00220949 |
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| DOI: | 10.1242/jeb.207241 |