2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.08.579518
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Innate floral object identification in the generalist solitary hoverfly pollinatorEristalinus aeneus

Aditi Mishra,
Anupreksha Jain,
Padmapriya S Iyer
et al.

Abstract: All animals must locate and identify food for their survival. Most insects are solitary. Newly emerged solitary insects must therefore employ innate identification of food cues to locate relevant nutritive objects from a distance. Innate preferences for food cues should be both specific enough to allow discrimination between food and non-food objects and general enough to allow for the variety of food objects relevant to each species’ ecology. How insects with small nervous systems are able to encode these cue… Show more

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