[Plasticity of the social behavior in Drosophila].
Original data illustrate self-starting classical conditioning to environmental factors in Drosophila, the factors serving as signals of a possible threat from other individuals and blocking initiation of activity. Instrumental conditioning resulting in reduction of an initially high level of activity in the group situation, helps a fly to avoid aggression from other flies and to use the food resources more efficiently. Classical conditioning makes it unnecessary for a fly to learn this instrumental task again and again: being faced with an analogous situation the fly automatically decreases its activity following presentation of the conditioned stimuli or the specific environment.
Kamyshev
N G
NG
I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Acad. Sci., 199034, St. Petersburg, Nab. Makarova, 6, Russia.
Smirnova
G P
GP
Kamysheva
E A
EA
Nikiforov
O N
ON
Parafeniuk
I V
IV
Ponomarenko
V V
VV
D000818:Animals; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004330:Drosophila; D005260:Female; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D012919:Social Behavior
Plastichnost' sotsial'nogo povedeniia u drozofily.