Courtship Love Songs: doublesex Makes the Connection.

Dev Cell

Biomedical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.

Published: June 2016

During courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males sing to females a song composed of rhythmic pulses and sine song. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Shirangi et al. (2016) show that a cluster of doublesex-expressing neurons directs the production of the sine song component through functional linkages to wing motoneurons.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2016.06.005DOI Listing

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