Rearing in different light regimes affects courtship behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-38

  Barth, Martin ^a   Hirsch, Helmut V B ^b   Heisenberg, Martin ^a,c  

^a Theodor Boveri Institut für Biowissenschaften   (Germany)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE;

COMMUNICATION; COURTSHIP BEHAVIOUR; LIGHT;

EID: 0030975968     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0275     Document Type: Article

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