Neuropeptide F regulates courtship in Drosophila through a male-specific neuronal circuit [PDF]
eLife, 2019 Male courtship is provoked by perception of a potential mate. In addition, the likelihood and intensity of courtship are influenced by recent mating experience, which affects sexual drive.
Weiwei Liu +7 more
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Strategic Variation in Male Courtship Persistence in the Butterfly Eurema hecabe [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe males of many insect species have experienced intense sexual selection for the ability to swiftly locate sexually receptive females. This is thought to have engendered the evolution of highly efficient mate location strategies, and to favour ...
Sanni A. Silvasti, Darrell J. Kemp
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The role of intrasexual competition on the evolution of male-male courtship display: a systematic review [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Evidence of male-male courtship display is widespread across the animal kingdom. Yet, its function and evolutionary origin remain unclear. Here, we hypothesise that male-male courtship display evolved in response to selection pressure exerted ...
Inês Órfão +7 more
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Intense light unleashes male–male courtship behaviour in wild-type Drosophila
Open Biology, 2023 Drosophila courtship studies have elucidated several principles of the neurogenetic organization of complex behaviour. Through an integration across sensory modalities, males perform stereotypic patterns of chasing, courtship song production and ...
Atsushi Ueda +7 more
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Vibrational courtship disruption of Nilaparvata lugens using artificial disruptive signals
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål; Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is a piercing-sucking pest that causes serious damage to rice plants by sucking the phloem sap from the plants and transmitting viruses. During courtship, the BPH vibrates its
Zelin Feng +8 more
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fruitless tunes functional flexibility of courtship circuitry during development
eLife, 2021 Drosophila male courtship is controlled by the male-specific products of the fruitless (fruM) gene and its expressing neuronal circuitry. fruM is considered a master gene that controls all aspects of male courtship.
Jie Chen +6 more
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Memory Elicited by Courtship Conditioning Requires Mushroom Body Neuronal Subsets Similar to Those Utilized in Appetitive Memory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 An animal's ability to learn and to form memories is essential for its survival. The fruit fly has proven to be a valuable model system for studies of learning and memory. One learned behavior in fruit flies is courtship conditioning.
Shelby A Montague, Bruce S Baker
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eLife, 2020 For successful mating, a male animal must execute effective courtship behaviors toward a receptive target sex, which is female. Whether the courtship execution capability and upregulation of courtship toward females are specified through separable sex ...
Kenichi Ishii +3 more
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Phase-Specific Vocalizations of Male Mice at the Initial Encounter during the Courtship Sequence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Mice produce ultrasonic vocalizations featuring a variety of syllables. Vocalizations are observed during social interactions. In particular, males produce numerous syllables during courtship.
Yui K Matsumoto, Kazuo Okanoya
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Distinctive courtship phenotype of the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise Lophorina niedda Mayr, 1930 confirms new species status [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The birds-of-paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae) are a quintessential example of elaborate ornamental diversification among animals. Ornamental evolution in the birds-of-paradise is exemplified by the presence of a highly integrated courtship phenotype, which
Edwin Scholes, Timothy G. Laman
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