@article {6709,
	title = {Genetic identification and separation of innate and experience-dependent courtship behaviors in Drosophila.},
	journal = {Cell},
	volume = {156},
	year = {2014},
	month = {2014 Jan 16},
	pages = {236-48},
	abstract = {<p>Wild-type D.\&nbsp;melanogaster males innately possess the ability to perform a multistep courtship ritual to conspecific females. The potential for this behavior is specified by the male-specific products of the fruitless (fru(M)) gene; males without fru(M) do not court females when held in isolation. We show that such fru(M) null males acquire the potential for courtship when grouped with other flies; they apparently learn to court flies with which they were grouped, irrespective of sex or species and retain this behavior for at least a week. The male-specific product of the doublesex gene (dsx(M)) is necessary and sufficient for the acquisition of the potential for such experience-dependent courtship. These results reveal a process that builds, via dsx(M) and social experience, the potential for a more flexible sexual behavior, which could be evolutionarily conserved as dsx-related genes that function in sexual development are found throughout the animal kingdom.</p>
},
	issn = {1097-4172},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.041},
	author = {Pan, Yufeng and Baker, Bruce S}
}
