Genetics of Aggression

A male fruit fly attacks a female fruit fly. The female has been genetically altered to produce male pheremones and to exhibit male-like behavior. This work was completed in the laboratory of Edward Kravitz, the George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• fruit fly behavior
• drosophila
• aggression
• genetics
• Edward Kravitz

[elimelech12]

and the point of this was to...? waste money?

[xxGizmo05xx]

How did I get from shaq to this????

[TwoTekah]

@elimelech12 but, it does make a lot of sense now, lots of older people who dont have a background in science are very ignorant towards it, or anything they dont like really.

[elimelech12]

@TwoTekah like i wrote so long ago - "they added aggression...if they would've showed, say, the genes removed from the male, that would be interesting...

the removal of the aggression is the jack pot...im sure someone being pushed around constantly while they're trying to enjoy some fruit will create aggression on its own!"

Please don't waste your time, I could care less about what you think, but at 18 people cared about what I thought!

And this is not a human brain, it's a fly's...A FLY'S!

[TwoTekah]

@elimelech12 the same as a human, but on a much lower scale. Basically the way these flies interact, is a dumbed down version of how humans interact who have norepinephrine which is out of the ordinary. So, how does it feel to be a little less ignorant?

[TwoTekah]

@elimelech12 lol, well how about this then. These types of things have a great point. There are similar tests which use flies who have altered alleles which code for the neuromodulator octopamine. This is basically the hormone which helps to process sensory cues, and it is very similar (one OH away from actually) norepinephrine in humans, which does about the same, except more complicated (memory, aggression, depression) so this helps understand what is going on in the brain of a fly, which is

[Evyn2]

wooowwww



[ThegodisAbraxas]

I will be the first to volunteer to have my angry genes taken out lol. Need help with my anger issues as it is...

[elimelech12]

they added aggression...if they would showed, say, the genes removed from the male that would be interesting...

the removal of the aggression is the jack pot...im sure someone being pushed around constantly while they're trying to enjoy some fruit will create aggression on its own!

[Threetails]

It raises some troubling questions.

1.If some population groups had a higher genetic tendency toward aggression, would that fact be reported with integrity, or suppressed due to politics?

2. What would it mean to the judicial process? Could courts order gene therapy for genetically aggressive people? Would our 18th century judicial ethic be able to adapt to this new knowledge?

3. Once effective treatments were in place, how would that change the social strata?

[sdeevooo]

@elimelech12

That it's a possibility to take out the genetically exempt the aggression genes in an animal.

[MwFreezd]

thanks, good to know in life.