Publication Date:
2017-07-29
Description:
Genetic and neuronal mechanisms governing the sex-specific interaction between sleep and sexual behaviors in Drosophila Nature Communications, Published online: 28 July 2017; doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00087-5 Genes and circuits involved in sleep and sexual arousal have been extensively studied in Drosophila . Here the authors identify the sex determination genes fruitless and doublesex , and a sex-specific P1-DN1 neuronal feedback that governs the interaction between these competing behaviors
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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