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• Genetic modification makes for frisky fruit flies

  
  Just A Theory — Authority: 464
  Biologists have genetically altered fruit flies so that they no longer produce pheromones, leading to their fellow insects becoming less discerning in their intimate endeavours. Published in this week’s Nature , Joel Levine and his team genetically destroyed the cells that create the fruit flies’ sex scent. ...
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• Her Eyes Say Yes, But Her Pheromones Say No

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 769
  Honey’s sweet smell attracts more flies than does vinegar’s sour odor, but the ultimate fruit-fly magnet is eau de nothing. Ditching pheromones makes male and female fruit flies super-sexy to male flies, even to males of other species, Joel Levine, a neurogeneticist at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Absent pheromones turn flies into lusty Lotharios

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 626
  When Professor Joel Levines team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didnt produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory.
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• Studying Gastrulation in Drosophila

  
  Hoxful Monsters — Authority: 116
  Lewis Wolpert once famously stated “”It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.” What is Gastrulation?During early development in majority of animals, the morphology of the embryo is dramatically reorganized by cell migration and this is termed as ...
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