Web Sites:

Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook By Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge
Useful Drosophila WWW sites 
Collect Your Own Drosophila Lab  1994 Woodrow Wilson Collection
Decapitated Drosophila grooming by Jay Hirsh
Neurogenetics of Drosophila by Randall W. Phillis
Mutant Fruit Flies
Data base for Drosophila genetics
A quick and simple introduction to Drosophila
 
 General Books on Drosophila and Animal Behavior:

• Ashburner, M. 1989. Drosophila, a Laboratory Manual
• Hinde, R.A. 1970. Animal Behavior: A Synthesis of Ethology and Comparative Psychology.  McGraw-Hill.
• Lehner, P.N. 1996. Handbook of Ethological Methods. Cambridge University Press.
• Tinbergen, N. 1956. The Curious Naturalist. Penguin Books.

Articles on various topics of grooming and other animal behaviors:

• Armstrong, K.F. and Bonner, A.B. (1985). Investigation of a permethrin-induced antifeedant effect in Drosophila melanogaster. An ethnological approach.  Pestic. Sci. 16: (6) 641-650.
• Berkowitz, A. and Laurent, G. (1996). Central generation of grooming motor patterns and interlimb coordination in locusts. J Neurosci. 16: (24) 8079-8091.
• Berridge, K.C. et al. (1987). Natural syntax rules control action sequence of rats.  Behav. Brain Res 23: (1) 59-68.
• Bolivar, V.J. et al. 1996. Separation of activation and pattern in grooming development of weaver mice.  Behav. Brain Res. 75:(1-2) 49-58.
• Dawkins, R and Dawkins, M. (1976).  Hierarchical organization and postural facilitation: rules for grooming in flies.  Animal Behav. 24: 739-755.
• Douglas, J.M. and Tweed, R.L. (1979).  Analyzing the patterning of a sequence of discrete behavioural events. Animal Behav. 27: 1236-1252.
• Elawami, I.O. and Dent, D.R. (1995). The interaction of surface and dust particle size on the pick up and grooming behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica.  Entmol. Exp. Appl. 77: (1) 81-87.
• Golani, I. and Fentress, J.C. (1985).  Early ontongeny of face grooming in mice. Dev. Psychobiol 18(6) 529-544.
• Meffert, L.M. and Bryant, E.H. (1992). Divergent ambulatory and grooming behavior in serially bottlenecked lines of the housefly.  Evolution 46: (5) 1399-1407.
• Phillis, R.W. et al (1993).  Isolation of mutations affecting neural circuitry required for grooming behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics 133: (3) 581-592.
• Nelson, K. (1990). Hierarchical organization revisited. Neth. J. Zool. 40: (4) 585-616.
• Sachs, B.D. (1988). The development of grooming and its expression in adult animals. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 525: 1-17.
• Spruijt, B.M. et al (1992).  Ethology and neurobiology of grooming behavior.  Physiol Rev. 72 (3) 825-852.
• Szebenyi, A.L. (1969).  Cleaning behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster.  Animal Behav. 17: 641-651.

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