Pheromonal and behavioral cues trigger male-to-female aggression in Drosophila

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Fernandez, María de la Paz ^a   Chan, Yick Bun ^a   Yew, Joanne Y ^b,c   Billeter, Jean Christophe ^d   Dreisewerd, Klaus ^c   Levine, Joel D ^d   Kravitz, Edward A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASCULINITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; REARING; RECOGNITION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 78649962500     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000541     Document Type: Article

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