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Université de Fribourg

The effect of learning on experimental evolution of resource preference in Drosophila melanogaster

Kawecki, Tadeusz J. ; Mery, Frederic

In: Evolution, 2004, vol. 58, no. 4, p. 757-767

Learning is thought to be adaptive in variable environments, whereas constant, predictable environments are supposed to favor unconditional, genetically fixed responses. A dichotomous view of behavior as either learned or innate ignores a potential evolutionary interaction between the learned and innate components of a behavioral response. We addressed this interaction in the context of...