CGC Bibliography Paper 3185

Social life and the single nucleotide: Foraging behavior in C. elegans.

Thomas JH

Medline:
98412649
Citation:
Cell 94: 549-550 1998
Type:
REVIEW
Genes:
npr-1
Abstract:
Since the rise of the field of sociobiology, the study of the biological basis of social behavior, scientists have striven to assign genetic origins for a variety of social behaviors. There have been a number of highly publicized and often controversial studies of the basis of human social behavoirs such as sexual orientation and religion. Less trumpeted by the popular press, there have been a number of more credible advances in the genetic analysis of complex behavioral traits. Two papers in the past year, one in this issue of Cell (de Bono and Bargmann, 1998), have established two interesting cases of a molecular basis for complex behaviors that are arguably relevant to social interactions in natural populations. Both have to do with food foraging strategies, one in Drosophila and one in C.