ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2006
Defective transfer of seminal-fluid materials during matings of semi-fertile fruitless mutants in Drosophila.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Visualizing Molecular Functions and Cross-Species Activity of Sex-Peptide in Drosophila.Genetics · 2015Article
- Isoform-specific functions of Mud/NuMA mediate binucleation of Drosophila male accessory gland cells.BMC developmental biology · 2014Article
- A small cohort of FRU(M) and Engrailed-expressing neurons mediate successful copulation in Drosophila melanogaster.BMC neuroscience · 2013Article
- Genetic control of courtship behavior in the housefly: evidence for a conserved bifurcation of the sex-determining pathway.PloS one · 2013Article
- A neuropeptide circuit that coordinates sperm transfer and copulation duration in Drosophila.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012Article
- The homeodomain protein defective proventriculus is essential for male accessory gland development to enhance fecundity in Drosophila.PloS one · 2012Article
- Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster.Nature neuroscience · 2010Article
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Abstract
In context of the semi-sterility exhibited by Drosophila males expressing certain mating-enabling fruitless (fru) mutant genotypes, we examined the transfer of seminal fluid using a transgene that encodes the Sex Peptide (SP) oligopeptide fused to Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). We found that this fusion construct expresses SP-GFP in a valid manner within accessory glands of the male reproductive system in normal and fru-mutant males. Transfer of SP-GFP to live females was readily detectable during and after copulation. With respect to the pertinent combinations of fru mutations, we demonstrated that these abnormal genotypes cause males to transmit mating-related materials in two aberrant ways: one involving whether any seminal-fluid entities are transferred at all during a given mating; the other revealing an intriguing aspect of these fruitless effects, such that the mutations in question cause males to transfer female-affecting materials in a manner that varies among copulations. In this regard, certain mutant males that do not transfer SP nevertheless are able to transfer sperm: a fru-mated female possessing no GFP who was not fecund initially could produce progeny when seminal-fluid proteins were subsequently supplied by mating with a male that was spermless owing to the effects of a tudor mutation.
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