Courtship behavior of brain mosaics in Drosophila.
Sites in the brain that show functional, sexual dimorphism in courtship behavior have been mapped at high resolution in male/female mosaics of Drosophila melanogaster. The sex mosaics were produced by enhancer-trap expression of GAL4 driving the female-spliced form of the transformer gene (tra), revealing sites in the dorsal brain, lateral protocerebrum, suboesophageal, thoracic and abdominal ganglia, and suggesting the importance of cross-talk between these regions in the implementation of the courtship sequence.
Ferveur
J F
JF
Department of Biology, New York University, NY 10003, USA.
Greenspan
R J
RJ
D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005724:Ganglia / Q000737:chemistry; D015870:Gene Expression; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D008297:Male; D009030:Mosaicism; D009420:Nervous System / Q000737:chemistry*; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics*; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal
D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C097162:Tra protein, Drosophila