Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7049, 2005, Pages 395-400

  Manoli, Devanand S ^a   Foss, Margit ^b   Villella, Adriana ^c   Taylor, Barbara J ^b   Hall, Jeffrey C ^c   Baker, Bruce S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEUROLOGY; PROTEINS;

DROSOPHILA MALES; ENVIRONMENTAL CUES; NEURAL SUBSTRATES; SENSORY CUES;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FRU PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NERVE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MASCULINITY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; YEAST; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 22944474325     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03859     Document Type: Article

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