期刊
BEHAVIOR GENETICS
卷 41, 期 5, 页码 754-767出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9470-5
关键词
Dispersal; Mating experience; Activity; Sexual dimorphism; Behavior; Natural isolate; Canton-S; Foraging gene; Genetic structure; Drosophila
资金
- NIH [5R01DA22777-3]
- NSF Engineering Research Center [EEC9407 226]
- HHMI
Cues from both an animal's internal physiological state and its local environment may influence its decision to disperse. However, identifying and quantifying the causative factors underlying the initiation of dispersal is difficult in uncontrolled natural settings. In this study, we automatically monitored the movement of fruit flies and examined the influence of food availability, sex, and reproductive status on their dispersal between laboratory environments. In general, flies with mating experience behave as if they are hungrier than virgin flies, leaving at a greater rate when food is unavailable and staying longer when it is available. Males dispersed at a higher rate and were more active than females when food was unavailable, but tended to stay longer in environments containing food than did females. We found no significant relationship between weight and activity, suggesting the behavioral differences between males and females are caused by an intrinsic factor relating to the sex of a fly and not simply its body size. Finally, we observed a significant difference between the dispersal of the natural isolate used throughout this study and the widely-used laboratory strain, Canton-S, and show that the difference cannot be explained by allelic differences in the foraging gene.
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