Courtship in Drosophila.
Courtship is a complex behavior in Drosophila that recruits a wide range of genes for its realization, including those concerning sex determination, ion channels, and circadian rhythms. Results from different experimental approaches-behavioral and genetic comparisons between species, analysis of mutants and mosaics, and identification of specific sensory stimuli-sketch the outlines of a set of pleiotropic genes acting on a distributed system in the brain to produce the species-specific sequence of responses and actions.
Greenspan
R J
RJ
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California 92121, USA. greenspan@nsi.edu
Ferveur
J F
JF
D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D013045:Species Specificity