...Nakul Wewhare; Anand Krishnan ABSTRACT Complex behavioral sequences such as courtship displays are often multimodal, and coordination between modalities is critically important. In learned and variable behavioural sequences such as songs, individual variability may also extend to multimodal...

... respond behaviourally to song amplitude structure; this observation suggests it may be a communication signal in Drosophila . We discuss our work in the broader context of other animals using amplitude modulations to communicate. Drosophila Fruit flies Courtship Song amplitude structure...

... through the loss of climbing ability and the second is a courtship learning assay for quantifying a more complex cognitive task. Each strain was crossed with a Gal4 driver appropriate for the assay. We used the pan-neuronal elav-Gal4 (Yao and White, 1994) for the climbing assay and the mushroom body (MB...

...Izarne Medina; José Casal; Caroline C. G. Fabre ABSTRACT Courtship vibratory signals can be air-borne or substrate-borne. They convey distinct and species-specific information from one individual to its prospective partner. Here, we study the substrate-borne vibratory signals generated...

..., how social signals are sensed and integrated during mating decisions remains a mystery. One of the models for understanding mating behaviors in molecular and cellular terms is the male courtship ritual in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). We have recently shown that a subset of gustatory...