International audienceAnimals, from insects to humans, select foods to regulate their acquisition of key nutrients in amounts and balances that maximise fitness. In species in which the nutrition of juveniles depends on parents, adults must make challenging foraging decisions that simultaneously address their own nutrient needs as well as those of their progeny. Here, we examined how the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a species in which individuals eat and lay eggs in decaying fruits, integrate feeding decisions (individual nutrition) and oviposition decisions (offspring nutrition) when foraging. Using cafeteria assays with artificial diets varying in concentrations and ratios of protein to carbohydrates, we show that D. melanogaster fe...
Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and co...
Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and co...
Food preference and choice of oviposition (egg laying) site are critical factors for insects such as...
International audienceAnimals, from insects to humans, select foods to regulate their acquisition of...
International audienceAnimals, from insects to humans, select foods to regulate their acquisition of...
Organisms from slime moulds to humans carefully regulate their macronutrient intake to optimize a wi...
Organisms from slime moulds to humans carefully regulate their macronutrient intake to optimize a wi...
Abstract Background Understanding how species adapt to new niches is a central issue in evolutionary...
An animal's metabolism changes throughout development, obliging the animal to coordinate its feeding...
Background: Understanding how species adapt to new niches is a central issue in evolutionary ecology...
Both developmental nutrition and adult nutrition affect life-history traits; however, little is know...
Abstract Background The adaptive significance of phenotypic changes elicited by environmental condit...
Both developmental nutrition and adult nutrition affect life-history traits; however, little is know...
Feeding behaviour is an expression of an animal's underlying nutritional strategy. The study of feed...
International audienceThe nutritional needs of animals largely depend on their ecology and habitat. ...
Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and co...
Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and co...
Food preference and choice of oviposition (egg laying) site are critical factors for insects such as...
International audienceAnimals, from insects to humans, select foods to regulate their acquisition of...
International audienceAnimals, from insects to humans, select foods to regulate their acquisition of...
Organisms from slime moulds to humans carefully regulate their macronutrient intake to optimize a wi...
Organisms from slime moulds to humans carefully regulate their macronutrient intake to optimize a wi...
Abstract Background Understanding how species adapt to new niches is a central issue in evolutionary...
An animal's metabolism changes throughout development, obliging the animal to coordinate its feeding...
Background: Understanding how species adapt to new niches is a central issue in evolutionary ecology...
Both developmental nutrition and adult nutrition affect life-history traits; however, little is know...
Abstract Background The adaptive significance of phenotypic changes elicited by environmental condit...
Both developmental nutrition and adult nutrition affect life-history traits; however, little is know...
Feeding behaviour is an expression of an animal's underlying nutritional strategy. The study of feed...
International audienceThe nutritional needs of animals largely depend on their ecology and habitat. ...
Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and co...
Decision-making is defined as selection amongst options based on their utility, in a flexible and co...
Food preference and choice of oviposition (egg laying) site are critical factors for insects such as...