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Drosophila female courtship and mating behaviors: sensory signals, genes, neural structures and evolutionJean François Ferveur
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, UMR6265 CNRS, UMR1324 INRA, Universite de Bourgogne, AgroSup Dijon, 6, Bd Gabriel, F 21000 Dijon, France
Curr Opin Neurobiol 20:764-9. 2010..The present review focus more on the female side and summarizes the sensory signals that the male sends, using multiple channels, and which neural circuits and genes are mediating sex-specific behavioral responses...
Cuticular hydrocarbons: their evolution and roles in Drosophila pheromonal communicationJean François Ferveur
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6 Bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France
Behav Genet 35:279-95. 2005....
Taste, movement, and death: varying effects of new prospero mutants during Drosophila developmentYael Grosjean
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
J Neurobiol 55:1-13. 2003....
Mild mutations in the pan neural gene prospero affect male-specific behaviour in Drosophila melanogasterYael Grosjean
CNRS UMR 5548, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Behav Processes 65:7-13. 2004..No similar effect was detected in mutant females. These findings suggest that mild mutations in pros did not alter vital functions during development but drastically changed adult male behaviour and reproductive fitness...
A mutation with major effects on Drosophila melanogaster sex pheromonesFabrice Marcillac
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France
Genetics 171:1617-28. 2005..simulans, which shows no sexually dimorphic hydrocarbons. We also induced a larval-lethal allele that lacked all transcripts and failed to complement the defective hydrocarbon phenotype of mutant alleles...
Expression of a desaturase gene, desat1, in neural and nonneural tissues separately affects perception and emission of sex pheromones in DrosophilaFrancois Bousquet
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche1324 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Universite de Bourgogne, F 21000 Dijon, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:249-54. 2012..Our results suggest that distinct desat1 putative regulatory regions independently drive the expression in nonneural and in neural cells, such that the emission and perception of sex pheromones are precisely coordinated in this species...
A single mutation alters production and discrimination of Drosophila sex pheromonesFabrice Marcillac
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
Proc Biol Sci 272:303-9. 2005..This indicates that the emission and perception of pheromones are coded by differ-ent products of the same gene, reflecting the pleiotropic activity of desatl ...
The consequences of regulation of desat1 expression for pheromone emission and detection in Drosophila melanogasterBenjamin Houot
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, UMR6265 Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, UMR1324 Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Universite de Bourgogne, AgroSup Dijon, F 21000 Dijon, France
Genetics 185:1297-309. 2010..This suggests that the pleiotropic action of desat1 on pheromonal communication depends on the fine regulation of its transcriptional activity...
An inhibitory sex pheromone tastes bitter for Drosophila malesFabien Lacaille
Universite de Bourgogne, CNRS UMR5548, Dijon, France
PLoS ONE 2:e661. 2007..Furthermore, the two substances induced similar behavioral responses both in courtship and feeding tests. We conclude that the inhibitory pheromone tastes bitter to the fly...
Spatio-temporal expression of Prospero is finely tuned to allow the correct development and function of the nervous system in Drosophila melanogasterLaure Guenin
Unité Mixte de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
Dev Biol 304:62-74. 2007....
Effect of genes, social experience, and their interaction on the courtship behaviour of transgenic Drosophila malesNicolas Svetec
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France
Genet Res 85:183-93. 2005..Finally, a high intensity of homosexual courtship was found only in males that simultaneously carried a mutation in their white gene and the CheB42a transgene...
Volatile Drosophila cuticular pheromones are affected by social but not sexual experienceJean Pierre Farine
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, Unité Mixte de Recherche 2572 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche1324 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
PLoS ONE 7:e40396. 2012....
Genes involved in sex pheromone discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster and their background-dependent effectBenjamin Houot
UMR6265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
PLoS ONE 7:e30799. 2012....
desat1: A Swiss army knife for pheromonal communication and reproduction?Francois Bousquet
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, UMR CNRS, UMR INRA, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fly (Austin) 6:102-7. 2012....
Feminization and alteration of Drosophila taste neurons induce reciprocal effects on male avoidance behaviorFabien Lacaille
Unité Mixte de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000, Dijon, France
Behav Genet 39:554-63. 2009....
A Drosophila male pheromone affects female sexual receptivityMicheline Grillet
Unité Mixte de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
Proc Biol Sci 273:315-23. 2006..Finally, our finding that desat1 mutant female showed altered response towards 7-T provides an additional role for this gene which affects the production and the perception of pheromones involved in mate choice, in both sexes...
Drosophila cuticular hydrocarbons revisited: mating status alters cuticular profilesClaude Everaerts
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, UMR 6265 CNRS, UMR 1324 INRA, Universite de Bourgogne, Agrosup, Dijon, France
PLoS ONE 5:e9607. 2010..We conclude that focusing on individual compounds will not provide a satisfactory understanding of the evolution and function of chemical communication in Drosophila...
desat1 and the evolution of pheromonal communication in DrosophilaFrancois Bousquet
Unite Mixte de Recherche, Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Bourgogne, Faculte des Sciences, Dijon, France
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1170:502-5. 2009..Therefore, and given the high conservation of its coding region, the pleiotropic activity of the desat1 gene may have arisen from an evolutionary process that shaped its regulatory regions...
Effect of laboratory acclimation on the variation of reproduction-related characters in Drosophila melanogasterBenjamin Houot
Unité Mixte de Recherche 6265 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Bourgogne, Faculte des Sciences, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
J Exp Biol 213:2322-31. 2010..This indicates that reproduction-related characters can diverge between neighboring D. melanogaster populations, and differently adapt to stable laboratory conditions...
Social experience and pheromonal perception can change male-male interactions in Drosophila melanogasterNicolas Svetec
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
J Exp Biol 208:891-8. 2005..The effect of social experience was greatly enhanced between transgenic males partially defective for pheromonal perception, indicating that male inhibitory pheromones are normally used to repress male-male interaction...
Peripheral, central and behavioral responses to the cuticular pheromone bouquet in Drosophila melanogaster malesTsuyoshi Inoshita
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6265 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1324 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
PLoS ONE 6:e19770. 2011..Together our data indicate that cuticular hydrocarbons induce long-lasting inhibitory effects on the relevant taste pathway which may interact with the olfactory pathway to modulate pheromonal perception...
Prospero mutants induce precocious sexual behavior in Drosophila malesYael Grosjean
Unité Mixte de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Bd Gabriel, Dijon 21 000, France
Behav Genet 37:575-84. 2007..Our data suggest that the altered pros expression affects the age of onset of male mating behavior...
Fatty-acid preference changes during development in Drosophila melanogasterAnne Sophie Fougeron
Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l Alimentation, UMR6265 CNRS, UMR1324 INRA, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
PLoS ONE 6:e26899. 2011..The developmental change in preference shown by this species might reflect functional variation in use of FAs or stage-specific nutritional requirements, and may be fundamental for insect use of these major dietary components...
A set of female pheromones affects reproduction before, during and after mating in DrosophilaFabrice Marcillac
Unité de Recherche 5548 Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Bourgogne, 6, Boulevard Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
J Exp Biol 207:3927-33. 2004..The fact that female pheromones induced reciprocal effects on the frequency of the genes contributed by females and males suggests that these substances regulate coevolutionary processes between the sexes...
Revisited roles of Drosophila female pheromonesFabrice Marcillac
, , , 6, Bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon, France
Chem Senses 30:i273-4. 2005
Species-specific effects of single sensillum ablation on mating position in DrosophilaAngel Acebes
UMR-CNRS 5548, , , 6 Boulevard Gabriel, F-21000 Dijon, France
J Exp Biol 206:3095-100. 2003....
