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The genetic architecture of social and asocial learning in Drosophila melanogaster
| Resumo: | "In an ever-changing environment, asocial and social information coexist, and animals need learning abilities to take advantage of both types of information and make informed decisions that increase their Darwinian fitness. Social information is less costly in most functional domains, updates faster, and is more prone to yield more adaptive outcomes in unexperienced animals. Asocial learning, on the other hand, informs the individual about its own preferences, limitations and adaptations, more prone to yield adaptive outcomes in experienced animals. So, asocial and social learning are different at the behavioural ecology level. But whether they rely on a shared domain-general genetic modules or on independent domain-specific genetic modules remains elusive(...)" |
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| Autores principais: | Simões-Henriques, Carla |
| Assunto: | Drosophila Melanogaster asocial learning social learning genetic behaviour |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso embargado |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | "In an ever-changing environment, asocial and social information coexist, and animals need learning abilities to take advantage of both types of information and make informed decisions that increase their Darwinian fitness. Social information is less costly in most functional domains, updates faster, and is more prone to yield more adaptive outcomes in unexperienced animals. Asocial learning, on the other hand, informs the individual about its own preferences, limitations and adaptations, more prone to yield adaptive outcomes in experienced animals. So, asocial and social learning are different at the behavioural ecology level. But whether they rely on a shared domain-general genetic modules or on independent domain-specific genetic modules remains elusive(...)" |
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