title: Unconventional sex: fresh approaches to courtship learning.
abstract: Understanding the complex array of genes, proteins and cells involved in learning and memory is a major challenge for neuroscientists. Using the genetically powerful model system, Drosophila melanogaster, and its well-studied courtship behavior, investigators have begun to delineate essential elements of associative and nonassociative behavioral plasticity. Advances in transgenic tools and developments in behavioral assays have increased the power of studying courtship learning in the fruit fly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University MS008, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mehren
authors.forename: Aki
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ejima
authors.forename: Leslie C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D023421:Models, Animal; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins