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Male Fruit Fly’s Courtship and Its Double Control by the Fruitless and Doublesex Genes

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This chapter reviews progress in the study of courtship behavior in male Drosophila melanogaster, an outstanding model organism in genetics. Emphasis is given on the successful identification of neurons that are involved in the decision to court, and of the sensory and motor pathways associated with this central command system. The power of the single gene–single cell approach in this model organism will be documented.

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I thank Masa Koganezawa for critical reading of the manuscript, and Mayura Suyama and Hiromi Sato for secretarial assistance. Our studies were supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Government Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (26113702, 26114502, 24113502 and 23220007) to D.Y., the Japan-France Bilateral Joint Research Project Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to D.Y. and the Life Science Grant from the Takeda Science Foundation to D. Y.

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Yamamoto, D. (2016). Male Fruit Fly’s Courtship and Its Double Control by the Fruitless and Doublesex Genes. In: Gewirtz, J., Kim, YK. (eds) Animal Models of Behavior Genetics. Advances in Behavior Genetics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3777-6_1

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