Functional coupling of acoustic and chemical signals in the courtship behaviour of the male Drosophila melanogaster

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作者
Rybak, F [1 ]
Sureau, G [1 ]
Aubin, T [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Paris 11, CNRS UMR 8620, Equipe Commun Acoust, Lab Neurobiol Apprentissage Memoire & Commun, F-91405 Orsay, France
关键词
courtship; acoustic communication; chemical communication; mutant; Drosophila;
D O I
10.1098/rspb.2001.1919
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
During courtship, the male Drosophila melanogaster sends signals to the female through two major sensory channels: chemical and acoustic. These signals are involved in the stimulation of the female to accept copulation. In order to determine the respective importance in the courtship of these signals, their production was controlled using genetical and surgical techniques. Males deprived of the ability to emit both signals are unable to mate, demonstrating that other (e.g. visual or tactile) signals are not sufficient to stimulate the female. If either acoustic or chemical signals are lacking, the courtship success is strongly reduced, the lack of the former having significantly more drastic effects. However, the accelerated matings of males observed with males bearing wild-type hydrocarbons compared with defective ones, whichever the modality of acoustic performance (wing vibration or playback), strongly support the role of cuticular compounds to stimulate females. We can conclude that among the possible factors involved in communication during courtship, acoustic and chemical signals may act in a synergistic way and not separately in D. melanogaster.
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