Sex-Specific Effects of Social Environment on Behaviour and Their Correlations in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>.

ABSTRACT: Environmental and individual experiences can result in immediate and persistent changes in behaviour. Often, such effects are also sex-dependent. Intraspecific interactions can be one of the most important environments an individual faces. Such social interactions are expected to affect a suite of behavioural traits and their correlations. Here, we used Drosophila melanogaster and high-throughput automated behavioural phenotyping to determine how social environment (group mixed sex, group single sex, and social isolation) and sex interact to affect basic behaviours (exploration, movement within a y-maze, and habituation to a startle) that likely underlie more complex behaviours such as mate searching and foraging. We show that such behaviours and some behavioural correlations are in

SUBMITTER: Macartney EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12032194 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature