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ArticleGenes2020

Does Divergence in Habitat Breadth Associate with Species Differences in Decision Making in

Madeline P Burns, Frederick D Cavallaro, Julia B Saltz

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Article in Genes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Madeline P BurnsDepartment of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Frederick D CavallaroDepartment of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4770-4729
Julia B SaltzDepartment of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0645-173X
Rice University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decision making is involved in many behaviors contributing to fitness, such as habitat choice, mate selection, and foraging. Because of this, high decision-making accuracy (i.e., selecting the option most beneficial for fitness) should be under strong selection. However, decision making is energetically costly, often involving substantial time and energy to survey the environment to obtain high-quality information. Thus, for high decision making accuracy to evolve, its benefits should outweigh its costs. Inconsistency in the net benefits of decision making across environments is hypothesized to be an important means for maintaining variation in this trait. However, very little is known about how environmental factors influence the evolution of decision making to produce variation among individuals, genotypes, and species. Here, we compared two recently diverged species of

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Choice BehaviorEcosystemFeeding BehaviorAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila simulansExploratory BehaviorFemaleGenotypeMaleSex CharacteristicsSpecies Specificitydecision makingDrosophilagenotypic variationhabitat breadth

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PMID32397481
PMCPMC7288451
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