Article
Polygene control and trait dominance in death-feigning syndrome in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum.
Behavior genetics - 1 Sept 2022
Matsumura Kentarou, Miyatake Takahisa
Abstract excerpt
Death-feigning behavior is an anti-predatory technique used in several animal taxa and often correlates with inhibited movements (i.e., death-feigning syndrome). We performed a reciprocal crossing among strains exhibiting a genetically longer (L-strain) and shorter (S-strain) duration of death feigning. Then, we investigated related heritable factors in F1 and F2 populations. We also evaluated movement...
Topics
- Animals
- Coleoptera
- Inheritance Patterns
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Phenotype
- Tribolium
