The mating of a fly.

Abstract excerpt

Courtship in Drosophila is influenced by a wide variety of genes, in that many different kinds of pleiotropic mutations lead to defective courtship. This may seem to be a truism, but the broad temporal and spatial expression of most of the fly's "neuro genes" makes it difficult to exclude elements of such genes' actions as materially underlying reproductive behavior. "Courtship genes" that seem to play more...

Topics

• Animals
• Drosophila melanogaster
• Female
• Genes, Insect
• Male
• Mutation
• Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
• Phenotype
• Sex Characteristics
• Sex Determination Analysis
• Sexual Behavior, Animal