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Courtship behavior: Resurrecting an undead song.
- Source :
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Current biology : CB [Curr Biol] 2024 Jul 08; Vol. 34 (13), pp. R623-R625. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The fly Drosophila yakuba has lost an ancestral component of the male courtship song: this is due to ontogenetic death of effector neurons in the ventral nerve cord, a result of the D. yakuba sex-determining gene dsx producing a male isoform, dsxM, with cell-death-promoting activity similar to that of the female isoform, dsxF, in D. melanogaster.<br />Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The author declares no competing interests.<br /> (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Animals
Male
Female
DNA-Binding Proteins genetics
DNA-Binding Proteins metabolism
Neurons physiology
Protein Isoforms genetics
Protein Isoforms metabolism
Sexual Behavior, Animal physiology
Drosophila Proteins genetics
Drosophila Proteins metabolism
Drosophila physiology
Drosophila genetics
Courtship
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1879-0445
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 13
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Current biology : CB
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38981426
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.013