Fruit Flies Shunned if the See Death
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Researchers have found that fruit flies who have witnessed another dead fruit fly are shunned by their colleagues and themself die quicker.
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We found that a short, 2-day exposure to freshly dead flies, which is known to affect the behavior of unexposed flies compared to dead-exposed individuals [2], led to a significant increase in fluorescent intensity relative to control animals
UNQUOTEhttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002149
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