Sexual circuitry in Drosophila

TO Auer, R Benton - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Sex-specific isoforms of Fruitless and Doublesex define dimorphic
circuitry.•Sensory pathways for chemical and auditory stimuli traced to the central …

Genetic coupling of mate recognition systems in the genomic era

MG Ritchie, RK Butlin - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives …, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The concept of “genetic coupling” in mate recognition systems arose in the 1960s as a
potential mechanism to maintain coordination between signals and receivers during …

iRegulon: from a gene list to a gene regulatory network using large motif and track collections

R Janky, A Verfaillie, H Imrichová… - PLoS computational …, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Identifying master regulators of biological processes and map** their downstream gene
networks are key challenges in systems biology. We developed a computational method …

Genetics on the Fly: A Primer on the Drosophila Model System

KG Hales, CA Korey, AM Larracuente, DM Roberts - Genetics, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Fruit flies of the genus Drosophila have been an attractive and effective genetic model
organism since Thomas Hunt Morgan and colleagues made seminal discoveries with them …

A role for triglyceride lipase brummer in the regulation of sex differences in Drosophila fat storage and breakdown

LW Wat, C Chao, R Bartlett, JL Buchanan… - PLoS …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Triglycerides are the major form of stored fat in all animals. One important determinant of
whole-body fat storage is whether an animal is male or female. Here, we use Drosophila, an …

Neuromolecular responses to social challenge: common mechanisms across mouse, stickleback fish, and honey bee

CC Rittschof, SA Bukhari, LG Sloofman, JM Troy… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - pnas.org
Certain complex phenotypes appear repeatedly across diverse species due to processes of
evolutionary conservation and convergence. In some contexts like developmental body …

Sex-and tissue-specific functions of Drosophila doublesex transcription factor target genes

E Clough, E Jimenez, YA Kim, C Whitworth… - Developmental cell, 2014‏ - cell.com
Primary sex-determination" switches" evolve rapidly, but Doublesex (DSX)-related
transcription factors (DMRTs) act downstream of these switches to control sexual …

Sex determination gene transformer regulates the male-female difference in Drosophila fat storage via the adipokinetic hormone pathway

LW Wat, ZS Chowdhury, JW Millington, P Biswas… - Elife, 2021‏ - elifesciences.org
Sex differences in whole-body fat storage exist in many species. For example, Drosophila
females store more fat than males. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this sex difference in fat …

A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies

RT Coleman, I Morantte, GT Koreman, ML Cheng… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Mate recognition systems evolve rapidly to reinforce the reproductive boundaries between
species, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain enigmatic. Here we leveraged the …

A sex-specific switch between visual and olfactory inputs underlies adaptive sex differences in behavior

T Nojima, A Rings, AM Allen, N Otto, TA Verschut… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
Although males and females largely share the same genome and nervous system, they
differ profoundly in reproductive investments and require distinct behavioral, morphological …