BIG used a different model of courtship: the difference between a downward glance and, say, Anthony Weiner.
So few musicals hold up the rape of the Sabine women as a model for courtship, but there it is in Stanley Donen's SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954).
From associations between the screened behaviors, we propose a functional model for courtship initiation.
Following discussion of the individual assays, we discuss associations between phenotypes and propose a simple functional model for courtship initiation that builds upon our observations.
Here, by combining a battery of specific sensory manipulations, quantification of a large number of courtship songs, and statistical modeling, we not only show that D. virilis males and females duet but also uncover the underlying mechanisms.
We manipulated sensory structures relevant for courtship and used statistical modeling to predict song rates from data sets containing all possible combinations of sensory organ manipulations to the male or female (each paired with a WT partner).
A review of 41 animal behavior studies found that a wide range of traits and taxa have dominance, epistasis, and genotype-y-environment interactions, although house fly courtship may remain a unique model where learning is an intersexually selected trait.
To determine what male traits females responded to and whether females altered assessment strategies based on individual male traits between treatments, we examined the relationships between the strengths of female response to individual males and hormonally influenced male phenotypic traits (male color, courtship behavior) using general linear models.
From the resulting changes in male courtship behavior we have derived a model describing the logic of the program that integrates the sensory information important for courtship behavior and sexual orientation of the Drosophila melanogaster male in single-choice courtship assays.
For copulation latency, we included courtship latency as an additional factor in the model (i.e., the base model effects plus courtship latency).
