Insulin signaling mediates sexual attractiveness in Drosophila

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kuo, Tsung Han ^a   Fedina, Tatyana Y ^b   Hansen, Ingrid ^a   Dreisewerd, Klaus ^c   Dierick, Herman A ^a   Yew, Joanne Y ^c,d   Pletcher, Scott D ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON; HYDROCARBON; PHEROMONE; SOMATOMEDIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHICO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSULIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TORSO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOTYPE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROCARBONS; INSULIN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LONGEVITY; PHEROMONES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS;

EID: 84860547185     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002684     Document Type: Article

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