Age, but not experience, affects courtship gene expression in male Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Ruedi, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Hughes, Kimberly A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; AGING; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

PRIMER DNA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 67650270895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006150     Document Type: Article

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