Molecular Transfer of a Species-specific Behavior from Drosophila simulans to Drosophila melanogaster
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 251 (4997) , 1082-1085
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1900131
Abstract
Drosophila males modulate the interpulse intervals produced during their courtship songs. These song cycles, which are altered by mutations in the clock gene period, exhibit a species-specific variation that facilitates mating. We have used chimeric period gene constructs from Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans in germline transformation experiments to map the genetic control of their song rhythm difference to a small segment of the amino acid encoding information within this gene.Keywords
This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
- Drosophila courtship song cycles in normal andperiod mutant males revisitedBehavior Genetics, 1990
- A New Mutation at thePeriodLocus ofDrosophila MelanogasterWith Some Novel Effects on Circadian RhythmsJournal of Neurogenetics, 1989
- Spectral analysis ofDrosophila courtship songs:D. melanogaster, D. simulans, and their interspecific hybridBehavior Genetics, 1988
- Cycles in the courtship song of male Drosophila melanogaster have not been detectedAnimal Behaviour, 1988
- Testing for Periodicity of ExtinctionScience, 1988
- Time Series Analysis with Clean - Part One - Derivation of a SpectrumThe Astronomical Journal, 1987
- A family of unusually spliced biologically active transcripts encoded by a Drosophila clock geneNature, 1987
- Product of per locus of Drosophila shares homology with proteoglycansNature, 1986
- The function of courtship song rhythms in DrosophilaAnimal Behaviour, 1982
- The function of pulse song and sine song in the courtship of Drosophila melanogasterAnimal Behaviour, 1976