Fruit Fly Species Use Social Learning to Protect Offspring

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) have a number of attributes that have made them one of the most extensively studied and well understood of all model organisms used in biomedical research. These include sharing many of the genes that cause diseases in humans, having a relatively small genome (fully sequenced in 2000), a short life cycle, and a large number of offspring.
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