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CHAPTER 11
Molecular Genetics of Insect Behavior
Chapter Outline
11.1 Overview 466
11.2 Introduction 467
11.3 The Insect Nervous System 469
11.4 Traditional Genetic Analyses of Behavior
471
11.4.1
Crossing Experiments
471
11.4.1.1
Susceptibility to American Foulbrood in
Apis mellifera
472
11.4.1.2
House-Entering Behavior in
Aedes aegypti
473
11.4.1.3
Foraging in
Drosophila
474
11.4.1.4
Other Behaviors Influenced by One or a Few Genes
475
11.4.2 Selection Experiments 476
11.4.2.1 Migratory Behavior in
Oncopeltus fasciatus
476
11.4.2.2 Analysis
of
Selection Experiments 477
11.4.3 Some Polygenically Determined Behaviors 478
11.5 Molecular-Genetic Analyses of Insect Behavior
479
11.5.1 The Photoperiodic Clock 480
11.5.1.1 The
period
+
Locus of
Drosophila
482
11.5.1.2 Song-Cycle Behavior in Transgenic
Drosophila
484
11.5.1.3 Other Effects of
per
485
11.5.2 Learning in
Drosophila
486
11.5.3 Functional Genomics of Odor Behavior in
Drosophila
490
11.5.4 Behavior of
Apis mellifera
491
11.5.5 Pheromones in Insects 492
11.5.6 Neurobiochemistry of
Drosophila
493
11.5.6.1 Electrical Signaling 493
11.5.6.2 Neurotransmitters 495
11.5.6.3 Ion Channels 495
11.5.7 Divergent Functions of
Est-6
and
Est-5
in Two
Drosophila
Species: A Cautionary Tale of
Homologs 496
11.5.8 Courtship Behavior in
Drosophila
497
11.5.9 Speciation Genes in
Drosophila
and Other Insects 499
11.5.10 Personality in Insects:
Tribolium confusum
,
Apis mellifera
,
Acyrthosiphon pisum
, and
Pyrrhocoris
apterus
501
