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Courtship behavior: the right touch stimulates the proper song.

Current biology : CB - 12 Jan 2010

Han Kyung-An, Kim Young-Cho

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Male fruit flies touch females during courtship. A new study finds that pheromone input received through the male's foreleg allows him to generate the courtship song appealing to female flies. This activity involves sexually dimorphic fruitless-expressing neurons in the brain.

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PMID: 20152141
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.060

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