title: Mate recognition: should fly stay or should fly go?
abstract: Recent studies have shown that male fruit flies use close-range olfactory cues to assess the status of potential mating partners. The presence of a volatile, male-derived pheromone can suppress the default male behavioral state of courting females.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA. jmehren@mail.rockefeller.edu
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mehren
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D052586:Mating Preference, Animal; D010675:Pheromones / Q000502:physiology; D018035:Receptors, Odorant / Q000502:physiology; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D010675:Pheromones; D018035:Receptors, Odorant