Let Music Sound while She Doth Make Her Choice

Rich Pang; Adrienne L Fairhall

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.014

Let Music Sound while She Doth Make Her Choice

Neuron. 2015 Sep 23;87(6):1126-1128. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.014.

Authors

Rich Pang¹, Adrienne L Fairhall²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
² Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; UW Institute for Neural Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: fairhall@u.washington.edu.

PMID: 26402597
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.014

Abstract

To attract females during courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males sing songs with motifs of varying temporal structure. In this issue of Neuron, Clemens et al. (2015) identify a song feature indicating male fitness and propose a neural mechanism for how it may be extracted from the auditory signal by female flies.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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MeSH terms

Animals
Auditory Pathways / physiology*
Auditory Perception / physiology*
Female
Male
Sexual Behavior, Animal / physiology*
Vocalization, Animal / physiology*

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