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A post-coital switch: Mapping the changing behaviors in the female fruit fly's mind

May 31, 2012
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then it shouldn't be surprising that their neural circuits differ. In research published today in the journal Current Biology, researchers have used dramatic changes in the behavior of the female fruit fly after sex to help map these often very different circuits. Read more
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