Social behavior and activity are decoupled in larval and adult fruit flies

Blake B. Anderson, Andrew Scott and Reuven Dukas

Behavioral Ecology, 2016, vol. 27, issue 3, 820-828

Abstract: Lay Summary The adaptive decoupling hypothesis explains the prevalence of complex life cycles in animals by stating that antagonistic selection leads to the disruption of genetic correlations between juvenile and adult traits. We quantified the degree of sociality in larval and adult fruit flies. Although we found significant variation in social behavior among larvae and adults, both traits were decoupled between larvae and adults. Our results agree with the adaptive decoupling hypothesis.

Keywords: activity; Drosophila melanogaster; fruit flies; metamorphosis; social behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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