In Drosophila melanogaster, the causal links among a complex behaviour, single neurons
and single genes can be demonstrated through experimental manipulations. A key player in …

The reproductive biology of Drosophila melanogaster is described and critically discussed,
primarily with regard to genetic studies of sex‐specific behavior and its neural …

The Drosophila fruitless (fru) gene encodes a set of putative transcription factors that
promote male sexual behavior by controlling the development of sexually dimorphic …

It remains an enigma how the nervous system of different animal species produces different
behaviors. We studied the neural circuitry for mating behavior in Drosophila subobscura, a …

Interest in Drosophila courtship behavior has a long-standing tradition, starting with the
works by Sturtevant in 1915, and by Bastock and Manning in the 50s. The neural and …

The fruitless (fru) locus was originally defined by a male sterile mutation that promotes male‐
to‐male courtship while suppressing male‐to‐female courtship in Drosophila melanogaster …

In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, male-specific splicing and translation of the Fruitless
transcription factor (FruM) alters the presence, anatomy, and/or connectivity of> 60 types of …

The transcription factor Fruitless exerts a broad range of functions during Drosophila
development, the most apparent of which is the determination of sexual behavior in males …

Post-transcriptional pre-mRNA splicing has emerged as a critical step in the gene
expression cascade greatly influencing diversification and spatiotemporal control of the …

The fruitless (fru) gene of Drosophila melanogaster generates two groups of protein
products, the male-specific FruM proteins and non-sex-specific FruCOM proteins. The FruM …