A wide range of organisms use sex pheromones to communicate with each other and to
identify appropriate mating partners. While the evolution of chemical communication has been …

… Shirangi et al. demonstrate that the Drosophila sexual differentiation gene doublesex
encodes a sex-specific behavior—male song—by promoting the connectivity between the male-…

Many animals utilize acoustic signals—or songs—to attract mates. During courtship,
Drosophila melanogaster males vibrate a wing to produce trains of pulses and extended tone, …

Drosophila melanogaster is an established model for neuroscience research with relevance
in biology and medicine. Until recently, research on the Drosophila brain was hindered by …

… The sense primer contained a Hind III site upstream of the sequence encoding the Flag
octapeptide and the SV40 Large T antigen nuclear localization signal (5'-CGG TAC AAG CTT …

Sexual behavior in Drosophila results from interactions of multiple neural and genetic pathways.
Male-specific fruitless (fruM) is a major component inducing male behaviors, but recent …

… at time t = 0 ms, so we required the fly to be visible from all three camera views in the range
t ∈ [ − 10,… We thank T. Beatus for advice on data analysis techniques; A. von Phillipsborn, Y. …

… The dsx 18 mutation is a C → T point mutation, mapping to the second oligomerization
domain, altering Pro375 to leucine (data not shown). Both alleles leave the DNA binding domain …

Most larval neurons in Drosophila are repurposed during metamorphosis for functions in adult
life, but their contribution to the neural circuits for sexually dimorphic behaviors is unknown…

Sexually dimorphic courtship behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster develop from the activity
of the sexual differentiation genes, doublesex (dsx) and fruitless (fru), functioning with other …