Mild mutations in the pan neural gene prospero affect male-specific behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-13

  Grosjean, Yaël ^a   Savy, Mathilde ^a   Soichot, Julien ^a   Everaerts, Claude ^a   Cézilly, Frank ^a   Ferveur, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Locomotion; Mating; prospero; Reproductive fitness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FLY; GENETICS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOTE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PAN NEURAL GENE; PHENOTYPE; PROSPERO GENE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPOSON;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; PROSPERO; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 1642575251     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00148-7     Document Type: Article

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