Central neural circuitry mediating courtship song perception in male Drosophila

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue September 2015, 2015, Pages

  Zhou, Chuan ^a   Franconville, Romain ^a   Vaughan, Alexander G ^b   Robinett, Carmen C ^a   Jayaraman, Vivek ^a   Baker, Bruce S ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PERCEPTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; HEARING; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84943804754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08477     Document Type: Article

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