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Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol
Food choice and preference relies on multiple sensory systems that are under the control of genes and sensory experience. Exposure to specific nutrients and nutrient-related molecules can change food preference in vertebrates and invertebrates. For example, larval exposure of several holometabolous...
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The Company of Biologists
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24326184 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.20136973 |
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author | Abed-Vieillard, Dehbia Cortot, Jérôme Everaerts, Claude Ferveur, Jean-François |
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description | Food choice and preference relies on multiple sensory systems that are under the control of genes and sensory experience. Exposure to specific nutrients and nutrient-related molecules can change food preference in vertebrates and invertebrates. For example, larval exposure of several holometabolous insects to menthol can change their adult response to this molecule. However, studies involving Drosophila melanogaster exposure to menthol produced controversial results due maybe to methodological differences. Here, we compared the oviposition-site preference of wild-type D. melanogaster lines freely or forcibly exposed to menthol-rich food. After 12 generations, oviposition-site preference diverged between the two lines. Counterintuitively, menthol ‘forced’ lines showed a persistent aversion to menthol whereas ‘free choice’ lines exhibited a decreased aversion to menthol-rich food. This effect was specific to menthol since the ‘free choice’ lines showed unaltered responses to caffeine and sucrose. This suggests that the genetic factors underlying Drosophila oviposition site preference are more rapidly influenced when flies have a choice between alternative sources compared to flies permanently exposed to the same aversive substance. |
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spelling | pubmed-38921572014-01-24 Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol Abed-Vieillard, Dehbia Cortot, Jérôme Everaerts, Claude Ferveur, Jean-François Biol Open Research Article Food choice and preference relies on multiple sensory systems that are under the control of genes and sensory experience. Exposure to specific nutrients and nutrient-related molecules can change food preference in vertebrates and invertebrates. For example, larval exposure of several holometabolous insects to menthol can change their adult response to this molecule. However, studies involving Drosophila melanogaster exposure to menthol produced controversial results due maybe to methodological differences. Here, we compared the oviposition-site preference of wild-type D. melanogaster lines freely or forcibly exposed to menthol-rich food. After 12 generations, oviposition-site preference diverged between the two lines. Counterintuitively, menthol ‘forced’ lines showed a persistent aversion to menthol whereas ‘free choice’ lines exhibited a decreased aversion to menthol-rich food. This effect was specific to menthol since the ‘free choice’ lines showed unaltered responses to caffeine and sucrose. This suggests that the genetic factors underlying Drosophila oviposition site preference are more rapidly influenced when flies have a choice between alternative sources compared to flies permanently exposed to the same aversive substance. The Company of Biologists 2013-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3892157/ /pubmed/24326184 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.20136973 Text en © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Abed-Vieillard, Dehbia Cortot, Jérôme Everaerts, Claude Ferveur, Jean-François Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
title | Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
title_full | Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
title_fullStr | Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
title_full_unstemmed | Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
title_short | Choice alters Drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
title_sort | choice alters drosophila oviposition site preference on menthol |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24326184 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.20136973 |
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