Monogenic heritable autism gene neuroligin impacts Drosophila social behaviour

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 252, Issue , 2013, Pages 450-457

  Hahn, Nina ^a   Geurten, Bart ^a,e   Gurvich, Artem ^b,c   Piepenbrock, David ^a,e   Kästner, Anne ^b,c   Zanini, Damiano ^a   Xing, Guanglin ^d   Xie, Wei ^d   Göpfert, Martin C ^a,c,e   Ehrenreich, Hannelore ^b,c   Heinrich, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c DFG Research Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain   (Germany)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DFG Collaborative research Center SFB 888 C2   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Autism; Behavioural transition; Drosophila melanogaster; Neuroligin; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DNL2 GENE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WILD TYPE;

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION; AUTISM; BEHAVIOURAL TRANSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NEUROLIGIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; COURTSHIP; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HEARING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84880427823     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.06.020     Document Type: Article

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