This special issue of the Journal of Neurogenetics celebrates the achievements and unique contributions of Daisuke Yamamoto on the occasion of his lab relocation from Tohoku University, where he spent nearly 13 years (2005-2018). Daisuke's profound and persistent scientific interest is sexual behavior of insects, Drosophila mela-nogaster in particular. His characteristic strategy amply illustrated an effective multi-layered approach: identification of genes and neural circuits that shape or control behavior and how they adapt and contribute to mating behaviors in different species. We here call this unique approach "comparative behavioral genetics."
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