A recent study of the geotactic response in fruit flies demonstrates how current genomic strategies may be combined with traditional quantitative and classical genetics to identify genes underlying complex behavioral phenotypes. Naturally-occurring variation in behavior seems to arise from mild alterations in pleiotropic genes.
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de Belle, J. Unifying the genetics of behavior. Nat Genet 31, 329–330 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng915
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