Drosophila TRPA channel painless inhibits male-male courtship behavior through modulating olfactory sensation.

The Drosophila melanogaster TRPA family member painless, expressed in a subset of multidendritic neurons embeding in the larval epidermis, is necessary for larval nociception of noxious heat or mechanical stimuli. However, the function of painless in adult flies remains largely unknown. Here we repo...

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Main Authors: Kaiyu Wang, Yanmeng Guo, Fei Wang, Zuoren Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206795?pdf=render