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SUBMITTER: Yuan Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3995170 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yuan Quan Q Song Yuanquan Y Yang Chung-Hui CH Jan Lily Yeh LY Jan Yuh Nung YN
Nature neuroscience 20131117 1
Intraspecific male-male aggression, which is important for sexual selection, is regulated by environment, experience and internal states through largely undefined molecular and cellular mechanisms. To understand the basic neural pathway underlying the modulation of this innate behavior, we established a behavioral assay in Drosophila melanogaster and investigated the relationship between sexual experience and aggression. In the presence of mating partners, adult male flies exhibited elevated lev ...[more]