Inbreeding-Driven Innate Behavioral Changes in Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Drosophila melanogaster has long been used to demonstrate the effect of inbreeding, particularly in relation to reproductive fitness and stress tolerance. In comparison, less attention has been given to exploring the influence of inbreeding on the innate behavior of D. melanogaster. In this study, multiple replicates of six different types of crosses were set in pair conformation of the laboratory-maintained wild-type D. melanogaster. This resulted in progeny with six different levels of inbreeding coefficients. Larvae and adult flies of varied inbreeding coefficients were subjected to different behavioral assays. In addition to the expected inbreeding depression in the-egg to-adult viability, noticeable aberrations were observed in the crawling and phototaxis behavior

SUBMITTER: Amanullah A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10376054 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature