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Review
. 2000:34:205-232.
doi: 10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.205.

Courtship in Drosophila

R J Greenspan  1 , J F Ferveur
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Review

Courtship in Drosophila

R J Greenspan et al. Annu Rev Genet. 2000.

Abstract

Courtship is a complex behavior in Drosophila that recruits a wide range of genes for its realization, including those concerning sex determination, ion channels, and circadian rhythms. Results from different experimental approaches-behavioral and genetic comparisons between species, analysis of mutants and mosaics, and identification of specific sensory stimuli-sketch the outlines of a set of pleiotropic genes acting on a distributed system in the brain to produce the species-specific sequence of responses and actions.

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