Courtship Behavior: The Right Touch Stimulates the Proper Song

Kyung-An Han; Young-Cho Kim

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.060

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Courtship Behavior: The Right Touch Stimulates the Proper Song

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Courtship Behavior: The Right Touch Stimulates the Proper Song

Kyung-An Han and Young-Cho Kim

Current biology, Vol.20(1), pp.R25-R28

2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.060

PMID: 20152141

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Abstract

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.

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Title: Subtitle: Courtship Behavior: The Right Touch Stimulates the Proper Song
Creators: Kyung-An Han
Young-Cho Kim
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Current biology, Vol.20(1), pp.R25-R28
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.060
PMID: 20152141
NLM abbreviation: Curr Biol
ISSN: 0960-9822
eISSN: 1879-0445
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
Language: English
Date published: 2010
Academic Unit: Neurology; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984020753202771

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