| Chapter title |
Insect pheromone behavior: fruit fly.
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 19 |
| Book title |
Pheromone Signaling
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| Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-62703-619-1_19 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-1-62703-618-4, 978-1-62703-619-1
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| Authors |
Daisuke Yamamoto, Soh Kohatsu, Masayuki Koganezawa, Yamamoto, Daisuke, Kohatsu, Soh, Koganezawa, Masayuki |
| Abstract |
The amenability to genetics of Drosophila melanogaster has made this organism one of the best-suited models for studying the neurobiology of pheromone-guided behavior. Single-male assays use the minigene encoding the thermosensitive channel dTrpA1 to activate neurons expressing fruitless (fru), a major courtship regulator gene, and thereby induce most of the elementary courtship acts in a solitary male exposed to temperature increase. Tethered male assays allow Ca(2+)-imaging of neuronal activities of a male fly displaying courtship behavior on a treadmill when stimulated with a female or pheromones. Here we describe technical details of these assays. |
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