Courtship behavior: the right touch stimulates the proper song.
Male fruit flies touch females during courtship. A new study finds that pheromone input received through the male's foreleg allows him to generate the courtship song appealing to female flies. This activity involves sexually dimorphic fruitless-expressing neurons in the brain.
Han
Kyung-An
KA
Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. khan@utep.edu
Kim
Young-Cho
YC
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