SUCROSE-STIMULATED SEARCHING BEHAVIOR OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER IN A UNIFORM HABITAT - MODULATION BY PERIOD OF DEPRIVATION
SUCROSE-STIMULATED SEARCHING BEHAVIOR OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER IN A UNIFORM HABITAT - MODULATION BY PERIOD OF DEPRIVATION
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DOI:
10.1016/s0003-3472(85)80068-3
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
TOBIN, TR
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作者:
BELL, WJ;TORTORICI, C;TOBIN, TR
The local searching behavior of sucrose-fed, apterous D. melanogaster was analyzed to quantify the effects of starvation on search parameters and to determine is a genetic dissection of local searching behavior was feasible. Three distinct ''searching state'' were observed: pre-feeding ranging prior to feeding, local seraching immediately following feeding, and post-feeding ranging after local searching was terminated. Differences between the 1st and 3rd states indicate that the searching behavior of D. melanogaster is not a simple alternation between ranging and local searching. Unfed D. melanogaster is not a simple alternation between ranging and local searching. Unfed D. melanogaster females walk relatively straight in the horizontal plane, a phase of searching referred to as pre-feeding ranging. Locomotory rate declines as the period of starvation increases from 0 to 48 h. Time actually spent moving increases to a maximum at 3-12 h of starvation and then declines. Satiated flies and flies starved for 48 h move very little. After a fly feeds on a drop of sucrose, its local searching is characterized by a decrease in locomotory rate and an increase in turning rate. These values then decay to post-feeding asymptotes. Flies starved longer than 24 h exhibit a somewhat different pattern of changes in the motor values. The duration of local searching increases with the period of starvation. ''Thoroughness'' values, a combination of path length and minimum circumscriptive circle, demonstrated that there were periodic bouts of searching, and a decline over time in the amplitude of area-restricted searching. The relative time spent ranging and searching and the rate of movement during these activities are discussed in terms of differing energy reserves resulting from a balance between the period of starvation and food intake.