Flies (IMAGE)

Rice University

Flies

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Julia Saltz, an evolutionary biologist at Rice University, placed genetically distinct variants of fruit flies in various and even uncomfortable situations to observe their behavior under stress and how it altered the behavior of interacting individuals when the "stressed" fly was moved to a new group.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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