The link between hearing and reproduction has been made before, as in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night1. Now, a paper in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology demonstrates that these two processes have an unforeseen degree of structural similarities2.
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Sutton, K., Jungnickel, M. & Florman, H. If music be the food of love.... Nat Cell Biol 4, E154–E155 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb0602-e154
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