Interest in individual differences in animal behavioural plasticities has surged in recent
years, but research in this area has been hampered by semantic confusion as different …

Egg-laying behavior is one of the most important aspects of female behavior, and has a
profound impact on the fitness of a species. As such, it is controlled by several layers of …

Organisms from slime moulds to humans carefully regulate their macronutrient intake to
optimize a wide range of life history characters including survival, stress resistance, and …

Understanding how behavioral diversity arises and is maintained is central to evolutionary
biology. Genetically based inheritance has been a predominant research focus of the last …

Flies transport specific bacteria with their larvae that provide a wider range of nutrients for
those bacteria. Our hypothesis was that this symbiotic interaction may depend on …

The animal gut commonly contains a large reservoir of symbiotic microbes. Although these
microbes have obvious functions in digestion and immune defence, gut microbes can also …

Animals, from insects to humans, select foods to regulate their acquisition of key nutrients in
amounts and balances that maximise fitness. In species in which the nutrition of juveniles …

Plastic changes at the presynaptic sites of the mushroom body (MB) principal neurons called
Kenyon cells (KCs) are considered to represent a neuronal substrate underlying olfactory …

Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible
and context-dependent manner. Oviposition site selection by the female fly, Drosophila …

Understanding sensory systems that perceive environmental inputs and neural circuits that
select appropriate motor outputs is essential for studying how organisms modulate behavior …