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Animal metaphors of questionable taste, VIII

home :: topics :: humor :: questionable :: fruit-fly-mating-dimorphism-cyrano-2008

In an otherwise very interesting story about the mechanism of behavioral dimorphism in fruit fly mating:

The next stage was to find out how effective the artificially induced songs were as mating calls.
For this, the "Cyrano de Bergerac" test was applied.

Posted at 13:23 on 05/04/2008 | permanent link

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John Hawks
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin—Madison
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