Failure to mate enhances investment in behaviors that may promote mating reward and impairs the ability to cope with stressors via a subpopulation of Neuropeptide F receptor neurons
Julia Ryvkin, Liora Omesi, Yong‐Kyu Kim, Mali Levi, Hadar Pozeilov, Lital Barak-Buchris, Bella Agranovich, Ifat Abramovich, Eyal Gottlieb, Avi Jacob, Dick R. Nässel, Ulrike Heberlein, Galit Shohat-Ophir
The paper shows that repeated mating failure in Drosophila leads to stress-like states and impaired coping, mediated by specific neurons.
PLoS Genetics · Jan 18, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience