Turning Males On: Activation of Male Courtship Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

The innate sexual behaviors of Drosophila melanogaster males are an attractive system for elucidating how complex behavior patterns are generated. The potential for male sexual behavior in D. melanogaster is specified by the fruitless (fru) and doublesex (dsx) sex regulatory genes. We used the tempe...

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Main Authors: Pan, Yufeng, Robinett, Carmen C., Baker, Bruce S.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3120818/