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Science 26 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5568, pp. 741 - 744
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069911
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Influence of Gene Action Across Different Time Scales on Behavior

Y. Ben-Shahar,1 A. Robichon,3 M. B. Sokolowski,4 G. E. Robinson12*

Genes can affect natural behavioral variation in different ways. Allelic variation causes alternative behavioral phenotypes, whereas changes in gene expression can influence the initiation of behavior at different ages. We show that the age-related transition by honey bees from hive work to foraging is associated with an increase in the expression of the foraging (for) gene, which encodes a guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP)-dependent protein kinase (PKG). cGMP treatment elevated PKG activity and caused foraging behavior. Previous research showed that allelic differences in PKG expression result in two Drosophila foraging variants. The same gene can thus exert different types of influence on a behavior.

1 Department of Entomology,
2 Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
3 CESG/CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 15 rue Hugues Picardet, Dijon 21000, France.
4 Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario L5L1C6, Canada.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: generobi{at}life.uiuc.edu

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