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Identification of stimuli that mediate experience-dependent modification of homosexual courtship in Drosophila
L J Vaias1, L M Napolitano, L Tompkins
1Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122.
Behavior Genetics
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
A naive, sexually mature D. melanogaster male tested with a young, sexually immature male will perform vigorous courtship, but the mature male will perform much less courtship if he is subsequently tested with a second young male. This phenomenon is called experience-dependent courtship modification (EDCM). We have shown that exposure to either or both of the two courtship-stimulating pheromones that immature males synthesize is sufficient to induce EDCM.