ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2015
Handling alters aggression and "loser" effect formation in Drosophila melanogaster.
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- High-throughput tracking of freely moving Drosophila reveals variations in aggression and courtship behaviors.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- High-Throughput Tracking of Freely MovingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Sexual Dimorphism in Aggression: Sex-Specific Fighting Strategies Across Species.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Social hierarchy is established and maintained with distinct acts of aggression in maleThe Journal of experimental biology · 2020Article
- Rage Against the Machine: Advancing the study of aggression ethology via machine learning.Psychopharmacology · 2020Review
- A small number of cholinergic neurons mediate hyperaggression in femaleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Serotonergic Modulation of Aggression in Drosophila Involves GABAergic and Cholinergic Opposing Pathways.Current biology : CB · 2019Article
- Winners have higher pre-copulatory mating success but losers have better post-copulatory outcomes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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- The adult foraging assay (AFA) detects strain and food-deprivation effects in feeding-related traits of Drosophila melanogaster.Journal of insect physiology · 2018Article
- Strategy changes in subsequent fights as consequences of winning and losing in fruit fly fights.Fly · 2017Article
- Short and long-lasting behavioral consequences of agonistic encounters between male Drosophila melanogaster.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- How social network structure affects decision-making in Drosophila melanogaster.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- A New Approach that Eliminates Handling for Studying Aggression and the "Loser" Effect in Drosophila melanogaster.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2015Article
- Learning and memory during aggression inJournal of nature and scienceArticle
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Abstract
In Drosophila, prior fighting experience influences the outcome of later contests: losing a fight increases the probability of losing second contests, thereby revealing "loser" effects that involve learning and memory. In these experiments, to generate and quantify the behavioral changes observed as consequences of losing fights, we developed a new behavioral arena that eliminates handling. We compared two commonly used fly handling procedures with this new chamber and demonstrated that handling influences aggressive behavior and prevents "loser" effect formation. In addition, we induced and observed novel aspects of learning associated with aggression such as the formation of robust winner effects.
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