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(d) Canton-S larvae raised on standard food that contains 1% ethanol (ethanol+) shows a substrate choice behavior that was not different from larvae that were raised for one (ethanol[1]) or two generations (ethanol[2]) on ethanol free food (TukeyHSD, pstandard-w/o<0.202, pstandarad-w/o2<0.639). 1) to 0.33 (Fig. Drosophila larvae use class IV (cIV) multidendritic sensory neurons on their cuticle to detect noxious stimuli or an attack by a parasitoid wasp and then escape by eliciting a sequential body bending and corkscrew-like rolling response (8, 9). Chem. 2, Table 1). Genet. However, of these animals less larvae pupated on 8% ethanol in comparison to control agarose condition (Fig. 3b,c, light blue line) and at higher concentration of 12% and 20% only few animals survive until pupation (21.40% and 12.40%, respectively; Fig. 8, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00011 (2014). correlation with the larval cluster (0.52, p-value<0.05), but negative correlations in the . 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