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SUBMITTER: Bendesky A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3154120 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20110316 7343
Innate behaviours are flexible: they change rapidly in response to transient environmental conditions, and are modified slowly by changes in the genome. A classical flexible behaviour is the exploration-exploitation decision, which describes the time at which foraging animals choose to abandon a depleting food supply. We have used quantitative genetic analysis to examine the decision to leave a food patch in Caenorhabditis elegans. Here we show that patch-leaving is a multigenic trait regulated ...[more]