A neuropeptide circuit that coordinates sperm transfer and copulation duration in Drosophila

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

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20697-20702

  Tayler, Timothy D ^a,b   Pacheco, Diego A ^b   Hergarden, Anne C ^a   Murthy, Mala ^b   Anderson, David J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruitless; Neural circuit; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

CORAZONIN; CORAZONIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CORAZONIN PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EJACULATION; INTERNEURON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; GANGLION; GENE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; COPULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EJACULATION; FEMALE; GANGLIA; GENES, INSECT; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; SPERM TRANSPORT;

EID: 84874444077     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218246109     Document Type: Article

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