Drosophila pheromone-sensing neurons expressing the ppk25 ion channel subunit stimulate male courtship and female receptivity.

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Published in PLoS Genet on March 27, 2014

Authors

Vinoy Vijayan1, Rob Thistle2, Tong Liu3, Elena Starostina1, Claudio W Pikielny1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America; Neuroscience Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
2: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
3: Department of Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America; Neuroscience Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America; Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

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