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Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in Spontaneous Grooming in Drosophila melanogaster.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 2 Sept 2020
Yanagawa Aya, Huang Wen, Yamamoto Akihiko, Wada-Katsumata Ayako, Schal Coby, Mackay Trudy F C
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Spontaneous grooming behavior is a component of insect fitness. We quantified spontaneous grooming behavior in 201 sequenced lines of the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel and observed significant genetic variation in spontaneous grooming, with broad-sense heritabilities of 0.25 and 0.24 in females and males, respectively. Although grooming behavior is highly correlated between males and females, we...
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