Sexual behavior: how Sex Peptide flips the postmating switch of female flies

Eric Kubli; Daniel Bopp

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.058

Sexual behavior: how Sex Peptide flips the postmating switch of female flies

Curr Biol. 2012 Jul 10;22(13):R520-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.058.

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Eric Kubli¹, Daniel Bopp

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¹ Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich-Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. ekubli@zool.uzh.ch

PMID: 22789998
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.04.058

Abstract

Drosophila male Sex Peptide elicits an amazing variety of postmating responses in mated females, some of which are transmitted via a receptor on specific neurons of the female genital tract. New work shows that neurons expressing the sex-determination gene doublesex (dsx) play a pivotal role in the female postmating switch.

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