Looking Under the Lamp Post: Neither fruitless nor doublesex Has Evolved to Generate Divergent Male Courtship in Drosophila

How do evolved genetic changes alter the nervous system to produce different patterns of behavior? We address this question using Drosophila male courtship behavior, which is innate, stereotyped, and evolves rapidly between species. D. melanogaster male courtship requires the male-specific isoforms...

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Main Authors: Jessica Cande, David L. Stern, Tomoko Morita, Benjamin Prud’homme, Nicolas Gompel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-07-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124714004926