On the use of kinship and familiarity associated social information in mediating Drosophila melanogaster oviposition decisions.

ABSTRACT: Decisions where an individual lays their eggs are important, as the choice may affect their offspring's survival and lifetime reproductive success. Information produced by conspecifics can potentially be useful in making decisions as this "social information" may provide an energetically cheaper means of assessing oviposition site suitability rather than acquiring it personally. However, as not all public information may be equally beneficial, cues produced by kin may be especially valuable as they might signal suitable microenvironments, and are associated with other fitness advantages resulting from improved foraging success and/or a decreased risk of competition/cannibalism compared to sites where unrelated conspecifics are located. Using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, we explo

SUBMITTER: Rakosy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11940635 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature