Fruit flies social distance (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Fruit flies social distance

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1. Images of a groups of fruit flies (small black dots) placed in a triangular arena. Normal flies (left triangle) like to be a certain distance apart showing their preference for social space, flies mutants in the schizophrenia-associated Rim gene (right) prefer increased in social distance.

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