Nature weighs in on the genetics of sexuality.
By turning up the heat, Toshihiro Kitamoto of the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, at Duarte, California, reversibly disrupted the function of particular nerve cells in male fruit flies, making the insects attracted to other males
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Heated, mutant male flies were less interested than before in females, who appeared completely unaffected. Restoring the activity of a small number of neurons concerned with sexual taste returned the flies to their conventional behaviour, even at high temperatures.
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