The role of cuticular pheromones in courtship conditioning of Drosophila males

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 636-645

  Siwicki, Kathleen K ^a   Riccio, Paul ^a   Ladewski, Lisa ^a   Marcillac, Fabrice ^b   Dartevelle, Laurence ^b   Cross, Stephanie A ^a   Ferveur, Jean François ^b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; PHEROMONE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONDITIONING; COPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COURTSHIP; DOSE RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOTYPE; LEARNING; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TRAINING; WILD TYPE;

ALKENES; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHEMORECEPTORS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 28844489464     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.85605     Document Type: Article

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