10.5061/DRYAD.MV5DH
Battesti, Marine
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Pasquaretta, Cristian
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Moreno, Celine
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Teseo, Serafino
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Joly, Dominique
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Klensch, Elizabeth
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Petit, Odile
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Sueur, Cedric
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Mery, Frederic
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Data from: Ecology of information: social transmission dynamics within
groups of non-social insects
Dryad
dataset
2014
social interaction
Oviposition
2014-12-16T20:14:48Z
2014-12-16T20:14:48Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2480
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While many studies focus on how animals use public information, the
dynamics of information spread and maintenance within groups, i.e. the
‘ecology of information’, have received little attention. Here we use
fruitflies trained to lay eggs on specific substrates to implement
information into groups containing both trained and untrained individuals.
We quantify inter-individual interactions and then measure the spread of
oviposition preference with behavioural tests. Untrained individuals
increase their interactive approaches in the presence of trained
individuals, and the oviposition preference transmission is directly
proportional to how much trained and untrained individuals interact.
Unexpectedly, the preference of trained individuals to their trained
oviposition substrate decreases after interactions with untrained
individuals, leading to an overall informational loss. This shows that
social learning alone is not enough to support informational stability.
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