Chemical stimuli eliciting courtship by males in Drosophila melanogaster

Robertson, H. M.

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Chemical stimuli eliciting courtship by males in Drosophila melanogaster

Robertson, H.M.

1983

Experientia 39(3): 333-335

Chemical stimuli eliciting courtship by males in Drosophila melanogaster

By progressive removal of various sense organs and testing for inter-male courtship in the absence or presence of females, it was demonstrated in the laboratory in South Africa that males of Drosophila melanogaster Mg. require close-range, probably contact, chemical stimuli for the initiation of courtship.

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