Courtship

…Songs and other signals support courtship and conflict, while the acoustic properties of habitats shape their evolution. Expanding human noise in terrestrial and aquatic environments is changing the conditions under which these signals function. The lecture considers this acoustic environmental change and the attention needed to preserve animal communication, alongside implications for human physical and mental health.

…heat pulses during courtship of a female. We developed a closed-loop stimulation paradigm in which the male receives optogenetic stimulation conditioned on his real-time song production. In response to the stimulus, fl

…During courtship, male flies produce two types of communication signals to woo the female: air-borne song is produced by wing movement, while substrate-borne vibrations are transmitted via the legs. Using statistical modelling of pose tracking data

…During courtship, males chase females and sing; female responses to male cues serve as critical feedback signals that shape the male’s ongoing behavior (Coen et al. 2014). In addition, we know that internal state

How does the brain decode the meaning of sound signals, such as music and courtship songs? We believe that the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an ideal model for answering this question, as it offers a comprehensive range of tools and assays which allow us to dissect the mechanisms underlying sound perception and evaluation in the brain. During the courtship behavior, male fruit flies emit “courtship songs” by vibrating their wings. Interestingly, the fly song has a species-specific rhythm, which indeed increases the female’s receptivity for copulation as well as male’s courtship behavior

…During courtship, Drosophila melanogaster males patt