The role of female movement in the sexual behavior ofDrosophila melanogaster

Tompkins, Laurie; Gross, A; Hall, Jeffrey C.; Gailey, Donald A.; Siegel, Richard W.

doi:10.1007/bf01067849

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“…Since an increase in preening activity also occurs when the flies are isolated, preening behaviour may have no specifically sexual connotation but does provide some indication of the level of female reactivity. Courtship reduces the activity of receptive females and this may be partly due to odour cues (Tompkins et a!., 1982), and to the effects of acoustic stimuli generated through wing vibration by the male (Cook, 1973;von Schilcher, 1976). The amount of wing vibration appears to be relatively independent of differences in female locomotor activity, although it may not be so in situations involving females from selected lines, or for neurological mutants, which cause more extreme deviations in the expression of female mobility.…”

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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

Burnet

Connolly

et al. 1988

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“…The mutation tipE (temperature-induced paralysis locus E) also disrupts para expression and confers temperatureinduced paralysis as a result of a decrease in sodium channel numbers (Feng et al, 1995) The sbl (smellblind) mutation, which is not temperature sensitive, is also an allele of the para gene (Lilly et al, 1994). This associates sodium channel mutations with olfactory and chemotactic defects (Lilly and Carlson, 1990) and with changes in sexual behaviour (Tompkins et al, 1982(Tompkins et al, , 1983. In another unrelated point mutation conferring resistance to the cyclodienes, a mutation in the structural gene encoding the g-aminobutyric acid receptor (rdl or resistance to dieldrin) also appears to induce reversible temperaturesensitive paralysis (Ffrench-Constant et al, 2000).…”

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Analogous pleiotropic effects of insecticide resistance genotypes in peach–potato aphids and houseflies

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We show that single-point mutations conferring target-site resistance (kdr) to pyrethroids and DDT in aphids and houseflies, and gene amplification conferring metabolic resistance (carboxylesterase) to organophosphates and carbamates in aphids, can have deleterious pleiotropic effects on fitness. Behavioural studies on peach-potato aphids showed that a reduced response to alarm pheromone was associated with both gene amplification and the kdr target-site mutation. In this species, gene amplification was also associated with a decreased propensity to move from senescing leaves to fresh leaves at low temperature. Housefly genotypes possessing the identical kdr mutation were also shown to exhibit behavioural differences in comparison with susceptible insects. In this species, resistant individuals showed no positional preference along a temperature gradient while susceptible genotypes exhibited a strong preference for warmer temperatures.

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“…These include mutations in genes required for normal morphology [white (13,14), yellow (14), and curved (15)], as well as genes involved in learning and memory [Calcium calmodulin kinase II (16), dunce (17,18), rutabaga (19,20), turnip (19,21), and amnesiac (20,22,23)], circadian rhythm [period (18,(24)(25)(26)] and dopamine and serotonin synthesis [Dopa decarboxylase (27), pale (28,29), tan (30,31), and ebony (32)(33)(34)], sex determination [doublesex (35)(36)(37), transformer (38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43), fruitless (44)(45)(46)(47), and sex lethal (48)], pheromone production [desaturase 2 (49)], and accessory gland-specific peptides (6-8, 50-52). a subset of loci identified by mutational analysis, or will the analysis of natural variants reveal novel loci?…”

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Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior

Mackay

Heinsohn

Lyman

et al. 2005

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The first steps of animal speciation are thought to be the development of sexual isolating mechanisms. In contrast to recent progress in understanding the genetic basis of postzygotic isolating mechanisms, little is known about the genetic architecture of sexual isolation. Here, we have subjected Drosophila melanogaster to 29 generations of replicated divergent artificial selection for mating speed. The phenotypic response to selection was highly asymmetrical in the direction of reduced mating speed, with estimates of realized heritability averaging 7%. The selection response was largely attributable to a reduction in female receptivity. We assessed the whole genome transcriptional response to selection for mating speed using Affymetrix GeneChips and a rigorous statistical analysis. Remarkably, >3,700 probe sets (21% of the array elements) exhibited a divergence in message levels between the Fast and Slow replicate lines. Genes with altered transcriptional abundance in response to selection fell into many different biological process and molecular function Gene Ontology categories, indicating substantial pleiotropy for this complex behavior. Future functional studies are necessary to test the extent to which transcript profiling of divergent selection lines accurately predicts genes that directly affect the selected trait.Species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups.Recent studies by the students of animal behavior, as well as the revised interpretation of many earlier observations, indicate that behavior differences are among animals the most important factor in restricting random mating between closely related forms.E. Mayr, 1942

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The role of female movement in the sexual behavior ofDrosophila melanogaster

Cited by 179 publications

References 29 publications

A genetic analysis of locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster

A genetic analysis of locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster

Analogous pleiotropic effects of insecticide resistance genotypes in peach–potato aphids and houseflies

Genetics and genomics of Drosophila mating behavior

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