It Really Is Not a Fruit Fly

Green, M M

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“…I am obliged to note that there is sometimes debate around the term 'fruit fly' for D. melanogaster (and for other Drosophila spp.). Other terms are 'vinegar fly' and 'pomace fly', for D. melanogaster; and it is sometimes recommended that the species name be used instead of any common name at all(Green 2002). However, as the term fruit fly is still commonly employed by scientists and non-scientists alike, I will retain its usage here for the readability of the text.2 This number is probably much smaller than the current number of farmed insects, due to the rapid growth of the industry (de Jong and Nikolik 2021); but it is the only published estimate at this time.…”

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Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals: First Steps Towards Better Understanding and Management (Musk and Clutton, 2024) - Insects

Barrett

2024

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Insects are an incredibly diverse class of largely terrestrial arthropods, with a million named species and many more to be discovered. Trillions of individuals are farmed for food and feed each year, with trillions (maybe quadrillions) more impacted by other kinds of human use and management. The question of insect pain is an open one, without broad scientific or philosophical consensus. Here, I present the history of the science on insect pain and the main neurobiological and behavioral evidence used to support and reject the idea of insect pain. The pain and suffering experienced by farmed insects during rearing, transport, and slaughter is reviewed, albeit from a somewhat speculative lens (given the uncertainty of insect pain at all, and the lack of validated tools for assessing pain in any insects). Analgesics and anesthetics that may work for insects are reviewed, as well as attitudes on insect pain from consumer, producer, academic, and other perspectives. Other arthropods - besides insects and crustaceans - are briefly reviewed, before concluding with the complexity of moral caution in the insect case.

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Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals: First Steps Towards Better Understanding and Management (Musk and Clutton, 2024) - Insects

Barrett

2024

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Mechanism of Action of Insect Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals

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Effect of Breeding Structure on Population Genetic Parameters in Drosophila

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The breeding structure of populations has been neglected in studies of Drosophila, even though Wright and Dobzhansky’s pioneering work on the genetics of natural populations was an attempt to tackle what they regarded as an essential factor in evolution. We compared the breeding structure of sympatric populations of D. melanogaster and D. simulans, two sibling species that are widely used in evolutionary studies. We recorded changes in population density and microsatellite variation patterns for 3 years in a temperate environment of southwestern France. Results were distinctively different in the two species. Maximum population levels in summer and in autumn were similar and fluctuated greatly over years, each species being in turn the most abundant. However, genetic data showed that D. melanogaster made up a continuous breeding population in time and space of practically infinite effective size. D. simulans was fragmented into isolates with a local effective size of between 50 and 350 individuals. A consequence of this was that, while a local sample provided a reliable estimate of regional genetic variability in D. melanogaster, a sample from the same area provided an underestimate of this parameter in D. simulans. In practical terms, this means that variations in breeding structure should be accounted for in sampling schemes and in designing evolutionary genetic models. More generally, this suggests the existence of differential reactions to local environments that might contribute to several genomic differences observed between these species.

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It Really Is Not a Fruit Fly

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals: First Steps Towards Better Understanding and Management (Musk and Clutton, 2024) - Insects

Pain and Suffering in Farmed Animals: First Steps Towards Better Understanding and Management (Musk and Clutton, 2024) - Insects

Mechanism of Action of Insect Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals

Effect of Breeding Structure on Population Genetic Parameters in Drosophila

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