A resource-poor developmental diet reduces adult aggression in male Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Aggressive behaviours occur throughout the animal kingdom and agonistic contests often govern access to resources. Nutrition experienced during development has the potential to influence aggressive behaviours in adults through effects on growth, energy budgets and an individual's internal state. In particular, resource-poor developmental nutrition might decrease adult aggression by limiting growth and energy budgets, or alternatively might increase adult aggression by enhancing motivation to compete for resources. However, the direction of this relationship-and effects of developmental nutrition experienced by rivals-remains unknown in most species, limiting understanding of how early-life environments contribute to variation in aggression. We investigated these alternative hypotheses by a

SUBMITTER: Edmunds D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8549984 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature