Dietary choices are influenced by genotype, mating status, and sex in Drosophila melanogaster.

ABSTRACT: Mating causes many changes in physiology, behavior, and gene expression in a wide range of organisms. These changes are predicted to be sex specific, influenced by the divergent reproductive roles of the sexes. In female insects, mating is associated with an increase in egg production which requires high levels of nutritional input with direct consequences for the physiological needs of individual females. Consequently, females alter their nutritional acquisition in line with the physiological demands imposed by mating. Although much is known about the female mating-induced nutritional response, far less is known about changes in males. In addition, it is unknown whether variation between genotypes translates into variation in dietary behavioral responses. Here we examine mating-induced sh

SUBMITTER: Camus MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010745 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature