CONDITIONED-RESPONSES IN COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR OF NORMAL AND MUTANT DROSOPHILA
CONDITIONED-RESPONSES IN COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR OF NORMAL AND MUTANT DROSOPHILA
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.76.7.3430
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
HALL, JC
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作者:
SIEGEL, RW;HALL, JC
Male courtship behavior in D. melanogaster is modified by prior sexual experience. Whereas naive males nearly always court virgin females persistently, males previously paired with unreceptive fertilized females subsequently court virgin females in an abbreviated manner, if at all. The probability of diminished male courtship is directly related to the duration of the prior conditioning period with a fertilized female. Naive males court fertilized females less vigorously than they court virgins; this depression of male behavior occurs even if the male is blind or if the fertilized female cannot actively reject his courtship. Fertilized females may be a source of both courtship-provoking and courtship-inhibiting olfactory cues and the central association of these cues in males is sufficient to bring about the retention of modified courtship behavior. Mutant amnesiac males, selected as memory-deficient in a learning test unrelated to courtship (Quinn et al., 1979), are trainable by exposure to fertilized females, but the experience-dependent behavior.sbd.diminished courtship performance.sbd.wanes abnormally rapidly.sbd.i.e., 1 h compared to 2-3 h for wild-type flies.