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SUBMITTER: Wu SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6559806 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Shun-Fan SF Ja Ya-Long YL Zhang Yi-Jie YJ Yang Chung-Hui CH
eLife 20190611
Integration of stimuli of different modalities is an important but incompletely understood process during decision making. Here, we show that <i>Drosophila</i> are capable of integrating mechanosensory and chemosensory information of choice options when deciding where to deposit their eggs. Specifically, females switch from preferring the softer option for egg-laying when both options are sugar free to being indifferent between them when both contain sucrose. Such sucrose-induced indifference be ...[more]