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The nature and nurture of female receptivity
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The nature and nurture of female receptivity 
a study in Drosophila melanogaster 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jenke A. Gorter 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This research has been carried out in the Evolutionary Genetics, Behaviour and Development 
(EGDB) group at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) 
according to the requirements of the Graduate School of Science (Faculty of Science and 
Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands). 
 
This research was supported by a Neuroscience Research School BCN/NWO Graduate 
Program grant (reference 022.OO4.OO8). Financial support for the printing of this thesis was 
kindly provided by the University of Groningen and the Faculty of Science and Engineering. 
 
Cover design, figures and lay-out: Jenke A. Gorter and Jean-Christophe Billeter 
Printed by:   Gildeprint, Enschede 
ISBN:    978-94-034-0455-4 (printed version) 
    978-94-034-0454-7 (electronic version)  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The nature and nurture of female 
receptivity 
 
A study in Drosophila melanogaster 
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Thesis 
 
 
 
 
to obtain the degree of PhD at the 
University of Groningen 
on the authority of the 
Rector Magnificus Prof. E. Sterken 
and in accordance with 
the decision by the College of Deans. 
 
This thesis will be defended in public on 
 
Friday 23 March 2018 at 16:15 hours 
 
 
 
 
by 
 
 
 
 
Jenneke Anne Gorter 
 
born on 27 February 1990 
in Dordrecht 
 
  
 
Supervisor 
Prof. J.-C. Billeter 
 
 
Assessment committee 
Prof. B. Wertheim 
Prof. A.T. Groot 
Prof. T. Chapman
  
 
Table of contents 
 
Chapter 1: General Introduction        7 
 
Chapter 2: A method to test the effect of environmental cues on mating behaviour  
in Drosophila melanogaster                    23 
 
Chapter 3: The nutritional and hedonic value of food modulate sexual receptivity  
in Drosophila melanogaster females                                  39 
 
Chapter 4: Immediate social context and early social experience differentially  
modulate female sexual receptivity in Drosophila melanogaster                               59 
 
Chapter 5: The odorant receptor Or47b promotes sexual receptivity in  
mated Drosophila melanogaster females                  83 
 
Chapter 6: Different genes influence virgin and mated female receptivity in  
Drosophila melanogaster: a genome wide association study               107 
 
Chapter 7: Synthesis                   137 
 
References                    147 
 
Nederlandse samenvatting                  177 
 
Personal information                   183 
 
Acknowledgements                   187 
 
  
 
 
 
  


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