Drosophila Courtship: Neuronal Coordination of Behavioural Sequences and a 60-Year-Old Hypothesis

Matthew Cobb

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.030

Drosophila Courtship: Neuronal Coordination of Behavioural Sequences and a 60-Year-Old Hypothesis

Curr Biol. 2019 Apr 1;29(7):R250-R252. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.030.

Author

Matthew Cobb¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. Electronic address: cobb@manchester.ac.uk.

PMID: 30939308
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.030

Abstract

Drosophila courtship consists of a stereotypic sequence of behaviours, involving increasing levels of excitation. A pair of neurons coordinate some of these sequences using a spike-counting model that echoes an idea first outlined in 1959.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Courtship
Drosophila Proteins*
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila*
Neurons
Sexual Behavior, Animal

Substances

Drosophila Proteins