Our p̶r̶e̶p̶r̶i̶n̶t̶ paper is l̶i̶v̶e̶ published today in Communications Biology! ‘Neural circuitry of social learning in Drosophila requires multiple inputs to facilitate inter-species communication’
We identify six Drosophila brain regions necessary for flies to learn the ‘dialect’ of another fly species and understand their warnings about the presence of parasitoid wasps. We also find that the neural circuits for interspecific dialect learning are much more complicated than those for intra-specific learning, relying on multisensory cues.
