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SUBMITTER: Deutsch D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6885007 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deutsch David D Clemens Jan J Thiberge Stephan Y SY Guan Georgia G Murthy Mala M
Current biology : CB 20190926 19
Males and females often produce distinct responses to the same sensory stimuli. How such differences arise-at the level of sensory processing or in the circuits that generate behavior-remains largely unresolved across sensory modalities. We address this issue in the acoustic communication system of Drosophila. During courtship, males generate time-varying songs, and each sex responds with specific behaviors. We characterize male and female behavioral tuning for all aspects of song and show that ...[more]