title: Neurogenetics: singing in the brain.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. cpk@leicester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Charalambos P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Kyriacou
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D013909:Thorax / Q000294:innervation; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C070369:DSX protein, Drosophila; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C103226:fru protein, Drosophila