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Single gene invites worms to dinner party

Whether a worm strain diplays solitary or social eating behavior is determined by natural variation in a single gene.

 

References:

de Bono, M., and C.I. Bergmann. 1998. Natural variation in a neuropeptide Y receptor homolog modifies social behavior and food response in C. elegans. Cell 94(Sept. 4).

 

Further Readings:

1996. Feasting on neuropeptide Y research. Science News 150(July 27):63.

Osborne, K.A., . . . M.B. Sokolowski. 1997. Natural behavior polymorphism due to a cGMP-dependent protein kinase of Drosophila. Science 277(Aug. 8):834.

Thomas, J.H. 1998. Social life and the single nucleotide: Foraging behavior in C. elegans. Cell 94(Sept. 4).

Travis, J. 1997. Enzyme reduction explains lazy flies. Science News 152(Aug. 23):127.

 

Sources:

Cornelia I. Bargmann
University of California, San Francisco
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Programs in Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, and Genetics
Departments of Anatomy and Biochemistry & Biophysics
San Francisco, CA 94143-0452

Mario de Bono
University of California, San Francisco
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Programs in Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, and Genetics
Departments of Anatomy and Biochemistry & Biophysics
San Francisco, CA 94143-0452

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 11, September 12, 1998, p. 167. Copyright © 1998 by Science Service.

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