2016
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151451
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Drosophila Food-Associated Pheromones: Effect of Experience, Genotype and Antibiotics on Larval Behavior

Abstract: Animals ubiquitously use chemical signals to communicate many aspects of their social life. These chemical signals often consist of environmental cues mixed with species-specific signals—pheromones—emitted by conspecifics. During their life, insects can use pheromones to aggregate, disperse, choose a mate, or find the most suitable food source on which to lay eggs. Before pupariation, larvae of several Drosophila species migrate to food sources depending on their composition and the presence of pheromones. Som… Show more

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“…It is not clear yet whether such experience-dependent conditioning results of an early imprinting effect or of some associative learning process 50 . This conditioning effect can vary between Drosophila species: early developmental exposure to larval-processed food strongly conditioned D. simulans and D. buzzatii larvae to prefer their own species-labelled food 51 while it induced a strong aversion in wild-type D. melanogaster larvae 52 . This repulsive response was abolished with specific antibiotic treatment 52 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is not clear yet whether such experience-dependent conditioning results of an early imprinting effect or of some associative learning process 50 . This conditioning effect can vary between Drosophila species: early developmental exposure to larval-processed food strongly conditioned D. simulans and D. buzzatii larvae to prefer their own species-labelled food 51 while it induced a strong aversion in wild-type D. melanogaster larvae 52 . This repulsive response was abolished with specific antibiotic treatment 52 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At a distance, insects are not only attracted by microbes on food sources, but by the metabolites resulting from the activity of gut-associated microbes 27,28 . These metabolites are mostly released through feces outside the larval digestive tract and some of them can change larval olfactory preference and induce life-long changes in egg-laying and olfactory behaviours in insects “conditioned” with such metabolites 12,2931 . Such conditioning to specific food components and/or microbial metabolites can induce, through epigenetic modification, a persistent change in food preference across generations 32,33 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…pseudoobscura ) are attracted to food sources containing yeast, and each species shows a marked preference for different yeast species 14 . While larval food preference can vary according to their earlier experience and the presence of maternally transmitted microbes 15 , 16 , the relationship between yeast in the larval diet and adult life traits has rarely been investigated 13 . Here, we measured the influence of pre-adult fungal diet quality on various adult life traits.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%