Drosophila clearly prefers partners whose wings emit comparable sounds.
It is a publication that could make you smile, but whose implications are nevertheless very serious. A Franco-German team has in fact just noted that female fruit flies (also called fruit flies) were all the more sexually attracted to a male’s nuptial song when the latter was “symmetrical”. The clever experimental device which made it possible to demonstrate this without ambiguity was the subject of a publication last week in the highly reputable Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Before going into the details of the experiment a little more, let’s recall a few fundamentals of biology: Drosophila is a very common animal model which has the advantage of having a very short reproduction cycle, of about ten days (for a one month shelf life). It is therefore widely used by evolutionists to show the appearance or disappearance of certain characters over generations, in response to a…
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