Who is he and what is he to you? Recognition in Drosophila melanogaster

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-23

  Billeter, Jean Christophe ^a   Levine, Joel D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BINDING SITE; COURTSHIP; DENDRITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; INTERNEURON; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84872871735     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.08.009     Document Type: Review

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