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SUBMITTER: Pan Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3120818 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pan Yufeng Y Robinett Carmen C CC Baker Bruce S BS
PloS one 20110622 6
The innate sexual behaviors of Drosophila melanogaster males are an attractive system for elucidating how complex behavior patterns are generated. The potential for male sexual behavior in D. melanogaster is specified by the fruitless (fru) and doublesex (dsx) sex regulatory genes. We used the temperature-sensitive activator dTRPA1 to probe the roles of fru(M)- and dsx-expressing neurons in male courtship behaviors. Almost all steps of courtship, from courtship song to ejaculation, can be induce ...[more]