The sex-determination genes fruitless and doublesex specify a neural substrate required for courtship song.
Courtship song is a critical component of male courtship behavior in Drosophila, making the female more receptive to copulation and communicating species-specific information [1-6]. Sex mosaic studies have shown that the sex of certain regions of the central nervous system (CNS) is critical to song...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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