Serotonergic neuronal death and concomitant serotonin deficiency curb copulation ability of Drosophila platonic mutants
oleh: Yasemin B. Yilmazer, Masayuki Koganezawa, Kosei Sato, Jinhua Xu, Daisuke Yamamoto
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-12-01 |
Deskripsi
Drosophila platonic (plt) mutant males court with females but fail to copulate. Here, the authors find plt is an allele of scribblerand may disrupt courtship behaviour via developmental disruption of a subgroup of serotonergic Doublesex+ neurons in the abdominal ganglion.