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[Brain central regions in courtship sound production in Drosophila melanogaster].
Rossiiskii fiziologicheskii zhurnal imeni I.M. Sechenova - 1 Jun 2001
Popov A V, Sitnik N A, Savvateeva-Popova E V, Reinhard W, Heisenberg M
Abstract excerpt
There are debates about the function of the two main central brain structures of insects--mushroom bodies and the central complex--in the control of motor co-ordination and triggering of different behaviour programs including sound production. To throw additional light onto this problem we analysed the parameters of the love song produced by 5-day old males courting for 5 minutes a fertilised CS female at 25...
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