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.
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Kyriacou, C. Sex in fruitflies is fruitless. Nature 436, 334–335 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436334a
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