What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila?
The fruitless (fru) gene in Drosophila has been proposed to play a master regulator role in the formation of neural circuitries for male courtship behavior, which is typically considered to be an innate behavior composed of a fixed action pattern as generated by the central pattern generator. Howeve...
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| author | Daisuke Yamamoto Soh Kohatsu |
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| description | The fruitless (fru) gene in Drosophila has been proposed to play a master regulator role in the formation of neural circuitries for male courtship behavior, which is typically considered to be an innate behavior composed of a fixed action pattern as generated by the central pattern generator. However, recent studies have shed light on experience-dependent changes and sensory-input-guided plasticity in courtship behavior. For example, enhanced male-male courtship, a fru mutant “hallmark,” disappears when fru-mutant males are raised in isolation. The fact that neural fru expression is induced by neural activities in the adult invites the supposition that Fru as a chromatin regulator mediates experience-dependent epigenetic modification, which underlies the neural and behavioral plasticity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-469c4189d2114d1a9dc892426ae59ef62023-09-21T15:09:08ZengTaylor & Francis GroupFly1933-69341933-69422017-04-0111213914710.1080/19336934.2016.12637781263778What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila?Daisuke Yamamoto0Soh Kohatsu1Tohoku University Graduate School of Life SciencesTohoku University Graduate School of Life SciencesThe fruitless (fru) gene in Drosophila has been proposed to play a master regulator role in the formation of neural circuitries for male courtship behavior, which is typically considered to be an innate behavior composed of a fixed action pattern as generated by the central pattern generator. However, recent studies have shed light on experience-dependent changes and sensory-input-guided plasticity in courtship behavior. For example, enhanced male-male courtship, a fru mutant “hallmark,” disappears when fru-mutant males are raised in isolation. The fact that neural fru expression is induced by neural activities in the adult invites the supposition that Fru as a chromatin regulator mediates experience-dependent epigenetic modification, which underlies the neural and behavioral plasticity.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2016.1263778behavioral plasticitycourtshipfruitlessor47bolfactionvision |
| spellingShingle | Daisuke Yamamoto Soh Kohatsu What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila? Fly behavioral plasticity courtship fruitless or47b olfaction vision |
| title | What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila? |
| title_full | What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila? |
| title_fullStr | What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila? |
| title_short | What does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs. nurture in the sex life of Drosophila? |
| title_sort | what does the fruitless gene tell us about nature vs nurture in the sex life of drosophila |
| topic | behavioral plasticity courtship fruitless or47b olfaction vision |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2016.1263778 |
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