Specialized cells tag sexual and species identity in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7266, 2009, Pages 987-991

  Billeter, Jean Christophe ^a   Atallah, Jade ^a   Krupp, Joshua J ^a   Millar, Jocelyn G ^b   Levine, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7,11 HEPTACOSADIENE; HYDROCARBON; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCENIC ACID;

ACETATE; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; COURTSHIP; CUTICLE; FLY; HYDROCARBON; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PHEROMONE; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WILD TYPE;

ACETATES; ALKADIENES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APHRODISIACS; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ODORS; OLEIC ACIDS; PHEROMONES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 70350070611     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08495     Document Type: Article

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