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Behavioural genetics: Sex in fruitflies is fruitless
Charalambos P. Kyriacou1
Abstract
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.
- 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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