Serotonergic neuronal death and concomitant serotonin deficiency curb copulation ability of Drosophila platonic mutants

Drosophila platonic (plt) mutant males court with females but fail to copulate. Here, the authors find plt is an allele of scribblerand may disrupt courtship behaviour via developmental disruption of a subgroup of serotonergic Doublesex+ neurons in the abdominal ganglion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yasemin B. Yilmazer, Masayuki Koganezawa, Kosei Sato, Jinhua Xu, Daisuke Yamamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13792