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- Title
Influence of gene action across different time scales on behavior.
- Authors
Ben-Shahar, Y; Robichon, A; Sokolowski, M B; Robinson, G E
- Abstract
Genes can affect natural behavioral variation in different ways. Allelic variation causes alternative behavioral phenotypes, whereas changes in gene expression can influence the initiation of behavior at different ages. We show that the age-related transition by honey bees from hive work to foraging is associated with an increase in the expression of the foraging (for) gene, which encodes a guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent protein kinase (PKG). cGMP treatment elevated PKG activity and caused foraging behavior. Previous research showed that allelic differences in PKG expression result in two Drosophila foraging variants. The same gene can thus exert different types of influence on a behavior.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 296, Issue 5568, p741
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1069911