Mating imperatives drive plasticity of the daily temporal niche in fruit flies.
Sagnik Ghosh, Ping Zhong, Caroline Suray, Junaid Mir, Tingting Chen, Antonio Palazzo, Vincent Rincheval, François Rouyer, Abhishek Chatterjee
The paper shows that sociosexual interactions in fruit flies can shift their daily activity patterns, enabling coexistence by altering temporal niches.
Nature Ecology & Evolution · Sep 22, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience