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It's not a bird, it's not a plane, it's a specialized government aircraft ejecting millions of Mediterranean fruit flies over ...
Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according to a new paper published in the journal Science Advances. That, in turn, ...
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ... effect on the mating success of male flies. This effect is due to the ...
Female fruit flies’ mating behaviors depend on their reproductive state. They become receptive to mating as they mature, but become less receptive to males’ ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must ...
Yes, you read that headline correctly. The government will be dropping millions of Mediterranean fruit flies over the Bay ...
A female’s pheromones? The last step of mating which is sperm and seminal fluid release?” To test if the latter is pleasurable, Shohat-Ophi and her colleagues used genetically engineered male fruit ...
I guess among the Drosophila it would be female fruit fly scientists publishing "Study Finds Males Who Drink Way More Fun to Study" (if fruit flies of either sex were capable of publishing studies ...
Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads ...
Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ... phenotype and genotype. Thus, the male fly is crossed with an ebony-bodied female of genotype ee.