A single mutation alters production and discrimination of Drosophila sex pheromones

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1560, 2005, Pages 303-309

  Marcillac, Fabrice ^a   Grosjean, Yaël ^a   Ferveur, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Desaturase; Drosophila; Mate discrimination; PGa14; Pheromonal communication

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; SEX PHEROMONE; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE;

GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; RECOGNITION; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESAT1 GENE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; GENE COMPONENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBONS; MALE; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

EID: 16244410478     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2971     Document Type: Article

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