...Susie E. Hewlett; Deborah M. Wareham; Andrew B. Barron ABSTRACT Underpinning the formation of a social group is the motivation of individuals to aggregate and interact with conspecifics, termed sociability. Here, we developed an assay, inspired by vertebrate approaches to evaluate social behaviours...

... 2015 11 12 2015 © 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016 Summary: Fruit flies make collective foraging decisions, the dynamics and magnitude of which vary with group size and composition. Aggregation Drosophila melanogaster Collective behavior Foraging...

...Darryl J. Hill; Andrew F. Rowley ABSTRACT The involvement of a putative integrin-like fibrinogen receptor in the aggregatory and phagocytic behaviour of thrombocytes (platelet equivalents of fish) from the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss was studied. Aggregation of trout thrombocytes was induced...