Expression of a desaturase gene, desat1, in neural and nonneural tissues separately affects perception and emission of sex pheromones in Drosophila

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 249-254

  Bousquet, François ^a   Nojima, Tetsuya ^a,b   Houot, Benjamin ^a,c   Chauvel, Isabelle ^a   Chaudy, Sylvie ^a   Dupas, Stéphane ^a   Yamamoto, Daisuke ^b   Ferveur, Jean François ^a  

^a CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrocarbon; Oenocyte; Pleiotropy; Sensory communication

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SEX PHEROMONE;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DESAT1 GENE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTIS; TRANSGENE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BRAIN; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; HEAD; HYDROCARBONS; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84855990689     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109166108     Document Type: Article

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