Courtship Love Songs: doublesex Makes the Connection.
During courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males sing to females a song composed of rhythmic pulses and sine song. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Shirangi et al. (2016) show that a cluster of doublesex-expressing neurons directs the production of the sine song component through functional linkages to wing motoneurons.
Biomedical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. Electronic address: michelle.arbeitman@med.fsu.edu.
Michelle N
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Arbeitman
Biomedical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
Nicole R
NR
Newell
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