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The role of central parts of the brain in the control of sound production during courtship in Drosophila melanogaster.
Neuroscience and behavioral physiology - 1 Jan 2003
Popov A V, Sitnik N A, Savvateeva-Popova E V, Wolf R, Heisenberg M
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The question of the roles of the two main parts of the insect brain, the mushroom bodies and the central complex, in controlling motor coordination and triggering a variety of behavioral programs, including sound production, remains controversial. With the aim of improving our understanding of this question, we studied the parameters of songs used by five-day-old males during courtship for fertilized wild-type...
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