%0 Journal Article
%T Courtship behavior: Resurrecting an undead song.
%A Kelley DB
%J Curr Biol
%V 34
%N 13
%D 2024 Jul 8
%M 38981426
%F 10.9
%R 10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.013
%X The fly Drosophila yakuba has lost an ancestral component of the male courtship song: this is due to ontogenetic death of effector neurons in the ventral nerve cord, a result of the D. yakuba sex-determining gene dsx producing a male isoform, dsxM, with cell-death-promoting activity similar to that of the female isoform, dsxF, in D. melanogaster.