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Sexy circuits

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As in humans, the actions and reactions of male and female fruitflies during courtship are quite distinct. The differences seem to lie in gender-specific neural interpretations of the same sensory signals. See Letter p.686

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Figure 1: Sexual dimorphisms in the fly brain5.

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  1. Richard Benton is in the Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. richard.benton@unil.ch ,

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