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Infection avoidance behavior: Viral exposure reduces the motivation to forage in female Drosophila melanogaster.
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- Influence of RVFV Infection on Olfactory Perception and Behavior inPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Intraspecific genetic variation in host vigour, viral load and disease tolerance during Drosophila C virus infection.Open biology · 2023Article
- Heterogeneities in infection outcomes across species: sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility.Peer community journal · 2023Article
- Infection increases activity via Toll dependent and independent mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
- Zika Virus Induces Sex-Dependent Metabolic Changes inFrontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Viral susceptibility across host species is largely independent of dietary protein to carbohydrate ratios.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2021Article
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- Viral infection causes sex-specific changes in fruit fly social aggregation behaviour.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Sexual Dimorphisms in Innate Immunity and Responses to Infection inFrontiers in immunology · 2019Review
- Social environment mediates cancer progression in Drosophila.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Ants avoid superinfections by performing risk-adjusted sanitary care.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Navigating infection risk during oviposition and cannibalistic foraging in a holometabolous insect.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Infection avoidance behaviors are the first line of defense against pathogenic encounters. Behavioral plasticity in response to internal or external cues of infection can therefore generate potentially significant heterogeneity in infection. We tested whether Drosophila melanogaster exhibits infection avoidance behavior, and whether this behavior is modified by prior exposure to Drosophila C Virus (DCV) and by the risk of DCV encounter. We examined 2 measures of infection avoidance: (1) the motivation to seek out food sources in the presence of an infection risk and (2) the preference to land on a clean food source over a potentially infectious source. While we found no evidence for preference of clean food sources over potentially infectious ones, previously exposed female flies showed lower motivation to pick a food source when presented with a risk of encountering DCV. We discuss the relevance of behavioral plasticity during foraging for host fitness and pathogen spread.
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