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10/07/2019Behavioural and genetic experiments have revealed that fruit flies prefer green light over other colours in the morning and evening, and always avoid blue. These colour preferences rely on different mechanisms.
A daily rhythm in colour preference
Colour vision helps animals to find nutritious food, to avoid poisonous animals and, in some cases, in social interactions. Colour can affect people’s mood, and their colour preferences might reflect current emotional and physiological states. Colour preferences also seem to vary through the seasons. Lapuzo et al. show on page 108 that the fruit fly Drosophila avoids blue light, and prefers green light to red light at different times of the daily 24-hour cycle. The authors also pinpoint separate mechanisms for these behavioural responses.
Autoren: Helfrich-Förster
Nature 574 (7776): 43-44 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02745-8
