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. 2018 Jul 19;14(7):e1007480.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007480. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Multiculturalism is good for flies, too

J Robert Manak  1   2
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Multiculturalism is good for flies, too

J Robert Manak. PLoS Genet. .
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Fig 1. Generalized schematic for dialect learning.
(A) Female flies cannot efficiently communicate a wasp threat if “teacher” and “student” are from different diverged species. (B) Cohabitation of diverged species allows for each species to learn the language “dialects” of the others; once dialects are learned, a female teacher now can communicate a wasp threat to a female student from a diverged species. Different diverged Drosophila species are highlighted in different colors (orange, green, blue, brown). Wasp is highlighted in black.
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