Exploring the Role of the Foraging Gene on Egg-laying Preferences in Drosophila melanogaster

Egg-laying decisions can have significant fitness consequences. In female Drosophila melanogaster, egg-laying involves foraging-like behaviour. Natural allelic variation in foraging (for) underlies the rover/sitter foraging behaviour polymorphism found in D. melanogaster. for encodes a cGMP-dependen...

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Main Author: McConnell, Murray
Other Authors: Fitzpatrick, Mark
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29527