Gene Review:
fru - fruitless
Drosophila melanogaster
Synonyms:
BTB-VI, BtbVI, CG14307, CG7688, CG7689, ...
- Elements of the fruitless locus regulate development of the muscle of Lawrence, a male-specific structure in the abdomen of Drosophila melanogaster adults. Gailey, D.A., Taylor, B.J., Hall, J.C. Development (1991)
- Sexual behavior mutants revisited: molecular and cellular basis of Drosophila mating. Yamamoto, D., Nakano, Y. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. (1999)
- Behavior and cytogenetics of fruitless in Drosophila melanogaster: different courtship defects caused by separate, closely linked lesions. Gailey, D.A., Hall, J.C. Genetics (1989)
- New reproductive anomalies in fruitless-mutant Drosophila males: extreme lengthening of mating durations and infertility correlated with defective serotonergic innervation of reproductive organs. Lee, G., Villella, A., Taylor, B.J., Hall, J.C. J. Neurobiol. (2001)
- A double-switch system regulates male courtship behavior in male and female Drosophila melanogaster. Shirangi, T.R., Taylor, B.J., McKeown, M. Nat. Genet. (2006)
- Control of male sexual behavior and sexual orientation in Drosophila by the fruitless gene. Ryner, L.C., Goodwin, S.F., Castrillon, D.H., Anand, A., Villella, A., Baker, B.S., Hall, J.C., Taylor, B.J., Wasserman, S.A. Cell (1996)
- The Drosophila takeout gene is regulated by the somatic sex-determination pathway and affects male courtship behavior. Dauwalder, B., Tsujimoto, S., Moss, J., Mattox, W. Genes Dev. (2002)
- Regulation of sex-specific selection of fruitless 5' splice sites by transformer and transformer-2. Heinrichs, V., Ryner, L.C., Baker, B.S. Mol. Cell. Biol. (1998)
- From behavior to development: genes for sexual behavior define the neuronal sexual switch in Drosophila. Yamamoto, D., Fujitani, K., Usui, K., Ito, H., Nakano, Y. Mech. Dev. (1998)
- Functional conservation and divergence of intersex, a gene required for female differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster. Siegal, M.L., Baker, B.S. Dev. Genes Evol. (2005)
- Genetic dissection of sexual orientation: behavioral, cellular, and molecular approaches in Drosophila melanogaster. Yamamoto, D., Ito, H., Fujitani, K. Neurosci. Res. (1996)
- Characterization of Drosophila fruitless-gal4 transgenes reveals expression in male-specific fruitless neurons and innervation of male reproductive structures. Billeter, J.C., Goodwin, S.F. J. Comp. Neurol. (2004)
- Fruitless specifies sexually dimorphic neural circuitry in the Drosophila brain. Kimura, K., Ote, M., Tazawa, T., Yamamoto, D. Nature (2005)
- Functional conservation of the fruitless male sex-determination gene across 250 Myr of insect evolution. Gailey, D.A., Billeter, J.C., Liu, J.H., Bauzon, F., Allendorfer, J.B., Goodwin, S.F. Mol. Biol. Evol. (2006)
- Abnormalities of male-specific FRU protein and serotonin expression in the CNS of fruitless mutants in Drosophila. Lee, G., Hall, J.C. J. Neurosci. (2001)
- A newly uncovered phenotype associated with the fruitless gene of Drosophila melanogaster: aggression-like head interactions between mutant males. Lee, G., Hall, J.C. Behav. Genet. (2000)
- fruitless gene is required to maintain neuronal identity in evenskipped-expressing neurons in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila. Song, H.J., Taylor, B.J. J. Neurobiol. (2003)
- Defective transfer of seminal-fluid materials during matings of semi-fertile fruitless mutants in Drosophila. Villella, A., Peyre, J.B., Aigaki, T., Hall, J.C. J. Comp. Physiol. A Neuroethol. Sens. Neural. Behav. Physiol. (2006)
- Aberrant splicing and altered spatial expression patterns in fruitless mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. Goodwin, S.F., Taylor, B.J., Villella, A., Foss, M., Ryner, L.C., Baker, B.S., Hall, J.C. Genetics (2000)
- Spatial, temporal, and sexually dimorphic expression patterns of the fruitless gene in the Drosophila central nervous system. Lee, G., Foss, M., Goodwin, S.F., Carlo, T., Taylor, B.J., Hall, J.C. J. Neurobiol. (2000)