Reduction of dopamine level enhances the attractiveness of male Drosophila to other males

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Tong ^a,b   Dartevelle, Laurence ^d   Yuan, Chunyan ^a   Wei, Hongping ^a,b   Wang, Ying ^a   Ferveur, Jean François ^d   Guo, Aike ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DROSOPHILA; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84887212426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004574     Document Type: Article

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