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SUBMITTER: Shirangi TR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3926192 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shirangi Troy R TR Stern David L DL Truman James W JW
Cell reports 20131031 3
Many animals utilize acoustic signals-or songs-to attract mates. During courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males vibrate a wing to produce trains of pulses and extended tone, called pulse and sine song, respectively. Courtship songs in the genus Drosophila are exceedingly diverse, and different song features appear to have evolved independently of each other. How the nervous system allows such diversity to evolve is not understood. Here, we identify a wing muscle in D. melanogaster (hg1) that is ...[more]