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Nature 453, 41-42 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453041a; Published online 30 April 2008

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Neuroscience: Hidden female talent

Jai Y. Yu1 & Barry J. Dickson1

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A male fruitfly serenades his female with a courtship song produced by vibrating one wing. The female also has the neuronal circuitry to generate a song of her own, but her brain tells her not to.

Male flies tend to put on quite a show when it comes to sex. They have to.

  1. Jai Y. Yu and Barry J. Dickson are at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 7, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
    Email: dickson@imp.ac.at

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