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Nature Neuroscience 11, 8–10 (1 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nn0108-8

Glia and romance

Joel D Levine

Drosophila courtship is a complex behavior. A new study shows that glia modulate neurotransmission to influence male preference, but the authors should have resisted the temptation to describe their results in tabloid language. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, keeps a lot of us in business. The importance of the fly as a model organism for studying genes and development was acknowledged with a Nobel Prize in 1995.