Neurons That Underlie Drosophila melanogaster Reproductive Behaviors: Detection of a Large Male-Bias in Gene Expression in fruitless-Expressing Neurons.
Published in G3, 2016
Recommended citation: Newell NR*, New FN*, Dalton JE, McIntyre LM, Arbeitman MN. (2016). "Neurons That Underlie Drosophila melanogaster Reproductive Behaviors: Detection of a Large Male-Bias in Gene Expression in fruitless-Expressing Neurons." G3. 6(8).
Male and female reproductive behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster are vastly different, but neurons that express sex-specifically spliced fruitless transcripts (fru P1) underlie these behaviors in both sexes. How this set of neurons can generate such different behaviors between the two sexes is an un- resolved question. These results suggest a possible global mechanism for how distinct behaviors can arise from a shared set of neurons.