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Genetic elements of courtship inDrosophila: Mosaics and learning mutants

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    Richard W. Siegel

  2. Department of Biology, Brandeis University, 02254, Waltham, Massachusetts

    Jeffrey C. Hall & Donald A. Gailey

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Charalambos P. Kyriacou

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This research has been supported in part by grants from the Lewis Fund to R.W.S., from the NIH to J.C.H. (GM-21473), and from the SERC (in the U.K.) to C.P.K.

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Siegel, R.W., Hall, J.C., Gailey, D.A. et al. Genetic elements of courtship inDrosophila: Mosaics and learning mutants. Behav Genet 14, 383–410 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065442

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