Neurogenetics: singing in the brain.
The fruitless gene is well-known to play a key role in determining the sexual identity of the fruitfly's nervous system, but new results show that doublesex is also required in thoracic neurons to generate normal male lovesongs.
Kyriacou
Charalambos P
CP
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. cpk@leicester.ac.uk
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