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Nature Genetics 39, 581 - 582 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng0507-581
Road rage and fruit flies
Anne F Simon1 & David E Krantz1
- Anne F. Simon and David E. Krantz are in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Hatos Center for Neuropharmacology, Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, 695 Charles Young Drive, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-1761, USA. e-mail: dkrantz@ucla.edu
Abstract
The genetic basis of aggression may be conserved from lobsters to humans. A new study uses the genetics of Drosophila melanogaster to explore the underlying neurochemical mechanisms.
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