Fig. 3From: Memory of social experience affects female fecundity via perception of fly depositsD. melanogaster females respond to their social environment by detecting the deposits left by other females, even in the absence of eggs. Two experiments were conducted: A Wildtype focal females were either isolated (‘isolation’), housed in groups of four (‘group’), housed with three OvoD1 females (‘eggless’) or housed in vials previously occupied by three OvoD1 females (‘deposits’); B wildtype focal females housed in isolation, in groups of four or in vials containing eggs laid by previous wildtype occupants (‘egg-spiked’). Fecundity was measured as the number of eggs laid by the focal female in the 24-h period following a single mating. Boxplots as in Fig. 1. Statistical significance values between isolation and other treatments were derived from model summariesBack to article page