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Preliminary characterisation of aggregation behaviour in drosophila melanogaster

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dc.contributor.advisor Vasu, Sheeba
dc.contributor.author Kulkarni, Rutvij
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-06T05:12:08Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-06T05:12:08Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Kulkarni, Rutvij. 2019, Preliminary characterisation of aggregation behaviour in drosophila melanogaster, MS thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://libjncir.jncasr.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10572/2793
dc.description.abstract When a cat detects prey, it stalks the prey before attacking it. Prey detection, thus, causes the cat to perform a series of non-random actions to conceal itself and capture the prey. These non-random actions are repeated every time the cat encounters any sort of prey. However, these actions may not be seen when the cat detects other non-food objects or if the prey is unfamiliar to the cat. Sometimes, the cat may fail to show these actions even when it encounters familiar prey simply because it may have fed recently. Such non-random actions are called behaviours and, as the above observations illustrate, they occur in response to specific environmental stimuli in a context dependent manner. This context specificity often depends on whether the organism stands to receive a net benefit by performing the behaviour. Thus, behaviours serve as responses to changes in an organism's environment that may allow the organism to adapt to these changes. Given the importance of responding to constantly changing environments, behaviours are ubiquitous across taxa. This ubiquity is accompanied by great diversity in form and function of behaviours. Consequently, a variety of questions may be posed to understand how and why such behavioural diversity exists in nature. Tinbergen (1963) broadly organized these questions into four complementary categories - causation, ontogeny, function and phylogeny (or evolution) - and thereby provided a framework to address different aspects of any given behaviour. These questions may be further grouped into proximate (or how?) questions (causation and ontogeny), which explore the biological mechanisms underlying behaviours, and ultimate (or why?) questions (function and phylogeny) which probe the evolutionary processes that underlie behaviours. Between them, these questions provide a comprehensive approach to studying any behaviour. Hence, I have used this framework to organize and discuss the literature available for aggregation behaviour in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. en_US
dc.language.iso English en_US
dc.publisher Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research en_US
dc.rights © 2019 JNCASR
dc.subject Aggregation behaviour en_US
dc.subject Drosophila melanogaster en_US
dc.title Preliminary characterisation of aggregation behaviour in drosophila melanogaster en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevel Master en_US
dc.type.qualificationname MS en_US
dc.publisher.department Evolutionary and Integrative Biology Unit (EIBU) en_US


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