Department of Biological Sciences, Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
Curr Biol. 2010 Jan 12;20(1):R25-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.060.
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.
雄果蝇在求偶时会触碰雌果蝇。一项新的研究发现，通过雄果蝇前腿接收的信息素输入，使他能够产生吸引雌果蝇的求偶歌曲。这项活动涉及到大脑中具有性二态性的 fru 表达神经元。
