Article
[The fan-shaped and ellipsoid bodies of the brain central complex are involved in the control of courtship behavior and communicative sound production in Drosophila melanogaster males].
Rossiiskii fiziologicheskii zhurnal imeni I.M. Sechenova - 1 Apr 2004
Popov A V, Peresleni A I, Ozerskii P V, Shchekanov E E, Savvateeva-Popova E V
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate the role of the fan-shaped and ellipsoid bodies (FB and EB) of the central complex of Drosophila melanogaster brain in the control of male courtship behavior and singing, we analyzed characteristics of the courtship behavior and parameters of the communicative sound signals accompanying it in wild type flies and in flies from 5 mutant strains with various anatomical defects in FB and EB. The...
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