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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Title:		Hearing regulates Drosophila aggression
Author(s):		Versteven M; Vanden Broeck L; Geurten B; Zwarts L; Decraecker L; Beelen M; Gopfert MC; Heinrich R; Callaerts P;
Address:		"Laboratory of Behavioral and Developmental Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Gottingen, 37077 Goettingen, Germany. Laboratory of Behavioral and Developmental Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; patrick.callaerts@kuleuven.be"
Journal Title:		Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Year:		2017
Volume:		20170123
Issue:		8
Page Number:		1958 - 1963
DOI:		10.1073/pnas.1605946114
ISSN/ISBN:		1091-6490 (Electronic) 0027-8424 (Print) 0027-8424 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Aggression is a universal social behavior important for the acquisition of food, mates, territory, and social status. Aggression in Drosophila is context-dependent and can thus be expected to involve inputs from multiple sensory modalities. Here, we use mechanical disruption and genetic approaches in Drosophila melanogaster to identify hearing as an important sensory modality in the context of intermale aggressive behavior. We demonstrate that neuronal silencing and targeted knockdown of hearing genes in the fly's auditory organ elicit abnormal aggression. Further, we show that exposure to courtship or aggression song has opposite effects on aggression. Our data define the importance of hearing in the control of Drosophila intermale aggression and open perspectives to decipher how hearing and other sensory modalities are integrated at the neural circuit level"
Keywords:		"Aggression/*physiology Animals Behavior, Animal/*physiology Courtship Drosophila Proteins/*genetics Drosophila melanogaster/*physiology Female Gene Knockdown Techniques Hearing/genetics/*physiology Male Neurons/*metabolism Vocalization, Animal/physiology;"
Notes:		"MedlineVersteven, Marijke Vanden Broeck, Lies Geurten, Bart Zwarts, Liesbeth Decraecker, Lisse Beelen, Melissa Gopfert, Martin C Heinrich, Ralf Callaerts, Patrick eng R01 GM084947/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2017/01/25 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Feb 21; 114(8):1958-1963. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1605946114. Epub 2017 Jan 23"