In many species, males have developed strategies to safeguard their genetic material from dilution by that of competing males. Fruitflies achieve this by altering the behaviour of their partners.
Leslie C Griffith -
Leslie C. Griffith is in the Department of Biology, Volen Center for Complex Systems and the National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA. e-mail
Publication Details
Nature (London), Vol.451(7174), pp.24-25
Identifiers
9923958165001921
Academic Unit
School of Arts and Sciences; Department of Biology; Benjamin and Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems; Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience