Courtship suppression in Drosophila melanogaster: The role of mating failure.

ABSTRACT: Drosophila melanogaster is a popular model organism in the study of memory due to a wide arsenal of methods used to analyze neuronal activity. The most commonly used tests in research of behavioral plasticity are shock avoidance associated with chemosensory cues and courtship suppression after mating failure. Many authors emphasize the value of courtship suppression as a model of behavior most appropriate to natural conditions. However, researchers often investigate courtship suppression using immobilized and decapitated females as targets of courtship by males, which makes the data obtained from such flies less valuable. In our study, we evaluate courtship suppression towards immature mobile non-receptive females after training with mated or immature females combined with an aversive stim

SUBMITTER: Goncharova AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10414572 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature