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Behavioural genetics:  Sex in fruitflies is fruitless

Charalambos P. Kyriacou1

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The courtship rituals of fruitflies are disrupted by mutations in the fruitless gene. A close look at the gene's products — some of which are sex-specific — hints at the neural basis of the flies' behaviour.

Richard Feynman is reported to have said, "Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that's not the reason we're doing it.

  1. Charalambos P. Kyriacou is in the Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
    Email: cpk@leicester.ac.uk

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