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Male-specific neurons directly linked to gender-specific behaviors
Sep 10, 2008 |
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New research identifies a few critical neurons that initiate sex-specific behaviors in fruit flies and, when masculinized, can elicit male-typical courtship behaviors from females. The study, published by Cell Press in the ...
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Why you can't hurry love
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a mathematical model of the mating game to help explain why courtship is often protracted. The study, by researchers at UCL (University College London), University of Warwick and ...
Courtship pattern shaped by emergence of a new gene in fruit flies
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May 26, 2008 |
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When a young gene known as sphinx is inactivated in the common fruit fly, it leads to increased male-male courtship, scientists report in the May 27, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Male Australian redback spiders employ courtship strategies to preserve their life
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 minutes. Further, the research shows ...
Male and female brains are not so different, fruit flies’ sex acts tell us
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Apr 17, 2008 |
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While males and females might sometimes act as though they come from different planets, a new study in flies suggests they are both equipped with a largely unisex brain.
Daily alcohol use causes changes in sexual behavior, new study reveals
Jan 02, 2008 |
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A team of researchers at Penn Sate has used an animal model to reveal, for the first time, a physiological basis for the effect of alcohol on male sexual behavior, including increased sexual arousal and decreased ...
One missing gene leads to fruitless mating rituals
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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Male fruit flies missing a gene for one particular odor receptor become clueless in matters of love, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have discovered.
Hidden genitalia in female water striders makes males 'sing'
Jun 11, 2009 |
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In a study published in PLoS ONE June 10, Chang Seok Han and Piotr Jablonski at Seoul National University, Korea, report that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attemp ...
Singing to females makes male birds' brains happy
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Oct 03, 2008 |
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The melodious singing of birds has been long appreciated by humans, and has often been thought to reflect a particularly positive emotional state of the singer. In a new study published in the online, open-access journal ...
Electric fish conduct electric duets in aquatic courtship
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Jun 20, 2007 |
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Cornell researchers have discovered that in the battle of the sexes, African electric fish couples not only use specific electrical signals to court but also engage in a sort of dueling "electric duet."
'Wingman' -- how buddies help alpha males get the girl
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Mar 05, 2007 |
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Why do some individuals sacrifice their own self-interest to help others? The evolution and maintenance of cooperative behavior is a classic puzzle in evolutionary biology. In some animal societies, cooperation ...
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