Courtship, aggression and avoidance: Pheromones, receptors and neurons for social behaviors in Drosophila

Fly

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-63

  Dahanukar, Anupama ^a   Ray, Anandasankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Chemosensory; Courtship; Drosophila; Gr; Or; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551529099     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.5.1.13794     Document Type: Review

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