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Eight isofemale lines ofDrosophila busckii were tested for emigration response behavior, using a modification of the Sakai system which permitted an analysis of two environmental variables, height and light. There was significant variation in the behavior of the isofemale lines in the four environmental configurations. Although there was no main effect of light on the emigration response of the isofemale lines, there was an effect of height. The isofemale lines differed in the overall pattern with which light and height affected their behaviors, indicating that, in this population ofDrosophila busckii, there is a varied and complex assemblage of genomes affecting emigration response behavior.
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Supported in part by a grant from the City University of New York PSC-CUNY Research Award Program to RFR and by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services PHS Grant 2-SO7-RR07132 to LL.
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Rockwell, R.F., Levine, L. Emigration response behavior: III. Genetic variability in a natural population ofDrosophila busckii . Behav Genet 16, 543–551 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066340
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