Sex-Peptide-Regulated Female Sexual Behavior Requires a Subset of Ascending Ventral Nerve Cord Neurons

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1771-1782

  Soller, Matthias ^a   Haussmann, Irmgard U ^a   Hollmann, Martin ^b   Choffat, Yves ^c   White, Kalpana ^a   Kubli, Eric ^c   Schäfer, Mireille A ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

APTEROUS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EGGHEAD PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MST57DC PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTERNEURON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVIPOSITION; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33748634329     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.055     Document Type: Article

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