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From: Memory of social experience affects female fecundity via perception of fly deposits

Fig. 2

D. melanogaster females require 72h of pre-mating exposure to conspecifics to express fecundity plasticity. Females were housed in ‘isolation’ (blue) or in ‘group’ (red boxes) treatments, for between 2 and 72h prior to mating. The vertical dotted line indicates the data are from two separate experiments—the first ‘short-term’ experiment used 2-, 4- and 8-h exposure times, and a second ‘long-term’ experiment used 24-, 48- and 72-h timepoints. Fecundity was measured as the number of eggs laid in the 24-h period following mating. Statistical significance between social treatments for each timepoint was derived from post hoc tests of the model and is indicated above box pairs. Boxplots as in Fig. 1

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