'Cross' Breeding: What Makes An Angry Fly?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 12:14
in Biology & Nature
A suite of genes that affect aggression in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been identified. By investigating male flies from a large panel of lines which each carry a mutation in a single gene but are otherwise genetically identical, researchers identified particularly angry and particularly placid insects, uncovering 59 mutations in 57 genes that affect aggressive behavior.