The sex-determination genes fruitless and doublesex specify a neural substrate required for courtship song.

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Published in Curr Biol on August 23, 2007

Authors

Elizabeth J Rideout1, Jean-Christophe Billeter, Stephen F Goodwin

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1: Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Glasgow, Anderson College, Glasgow, UK.

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