Genetical and maternal determinants of the activity and preening behaviour of Drosophila melanogaster reared in different environments

Hay, David

doi:10.1038/hdy.1972.43

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“…The flies respond to disturbance by jumping, increase in speed, and by reduced preening, and these associated changes in behaviour may together constitute a "startle response" which is likely to be adaptive in nature. Hay (1972) and Angus (1974) used a time sampling technique to study the locomotor activity and preening behaviour of flies after being disturbed, either by a mechanical or a shadow stimulus. As SeweIl (1979) notes, there is some doubt as to whether apparently similar components of activity measured in this way are directly comparable with those measured in the "open field" as described here.…”

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“…At a more subtle level, it is an important determinant of mating success. That individual differences in activity are substantially under genetic control is already well established (Ewing, 1963;Connolly, 1963;Hay, 1972;Angus, 1973;van Dijken and Scharloo, 1979a;van Dijken et aL, 1979). There are some difficulties in interpreting what the measured activity represents in these investigations which differ in the methods of observation employed, because no distinction has been made between the amount and speed of locomotor activity.…”

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A genetic analysis of locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster

Burnet

Connolly

et al. 1988

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The locomotor activity of flies observed as isolated individuals in an "open field" observation chamber contains two components-the amount and speed of movement. These are distinct behavioural phenotypes. The reactivity of flies to handling disturbance is reflected chiefly by changes in the speed rather than in the amount of locomotion, but there are significant differences in the overall pattern of expression of reactivity between males and females. The amount and speed of locomotion are under independent genetic control, but genes affecting movement in the "open field" may also have effects on the locomotor activity of virgin females when they are courted. Variation in the locomotor activity of females has little effect on the amount of wing vibration which males direct at them, but significantly affects the amount of contact stimulation by licking which they receive.

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A genetic analysis of locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster

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Connolly

et al. 1988

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“…Good examples of the potential information available from such studies are the work of Hirsch (1967) who conducted a series of chromosome assays on strains selected for geotaxis, and Hay (1972) who analysed, with biometrical genetic techniques, the activity and preening of inbred lines raised in different environments.…”

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Selection for mating success of yellow mutant Drosophila melanogaster: biometrical genetic analysis

Dow

1977

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A biometrical genetic analysis was conducted on two lines of Drosophila melanogaster that had been selected for wild-type female receptivity and for high mating success of yellow mutant males. Simple additive-dominance models were adequate only for male mating ability measured over 1-hour mating periods. The genetic models for female receptivity required the inclusion of sex-linkage, maternal genetic effects and digenic interactions. Some of the genetic parameters were found to change with the duration of testing. The two selection lines had diverged genetically during the selection régime and shared little of the genetic architecture for male mating ability or for female receptivity.

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“…Expectation for the means of the 26 kinds of families available in the present data which include interactions between two and three loci at a time and for linkage between pairs of such loci have been described along with tests for detecting their presence (Jinks and Perkins, 1969). A specification of maternal effects which assume that they arise from the additive and dominance action of genes of the maternal genotype and analyses which provide tests of this assumption have been described by Barnes (1968), Fulker (1970, Mather and Jinks (1971) and Hay (1972). A general model which would allow for persistence over two or more generations would need to specify in addition:…”

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