Identification of stimuli that mediate experience-dependent modification of homosexual courtship in Drosophila melanogaster.
A naive, sexually mature D. melanogaster male tested with a young, sexually immature male will perform vigorous courtship, but the mature male will perform much less courtship if he is subsequently tested with a second young male. This phenomenon is called experience-dependent courtship modification (EDCM). We have shown that exposure to either or both of the two courtship-stimulating pheromones that immature males synthesize is sufficient to induce EDCM.
Vaias
L J
LJ
Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122.
Napolitano
L M
LM
Tompkins
L
L
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012741:Sexual Maturation / Q000235:genetics*