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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 115, 期 36, 页码 9020-9025出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1716880115
关键词
alcohol; behavior; Drosophila; preference; feeding
资金
- Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (NIH) [P40OD018537]
- NIH [2R01AA018037-06A1, T32AA07471]
Drosophila melanogaster is a powerful model organism for dissecting the neurogenetic basis of appetitive and aversive behaviors. However, some methods used to assay food preference require or cause starvation. This can be problematic for fly ethanol research because it can be difficult to dissociate caloric preference for ethanol from pharmacological preference for the drug. We designed BARCODE, a starvation-independent assay that uses trace levels of oligonucleotide tags to differentially mark food types. In BARCODE, flies feed ad libitum, and relative food preference is monitored by qPCR of the oligonucleotides. Persistence of the ingested oligomers within the fly records the feeding history of the fly over several days. Using BARCODE, we identified a sexually dimorphic preference for ethanol. Females are attracted to ethanol-laden foods, whereas males avoid consuming it. Furthermore, genetically feminizing male mushroom body lobes induces preference for ethanol. In addition, we demonstrate that BARCODE can be used for multiplex diet measurements when animals are presented with more than two food choices.
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