Absent Pheromones Turn Flies Into Lusty Lotharios

When Professor Joel Levine’s team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn’t produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory. In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal male fruit flies attempted to mate with pheromone-free males and even females from a different speciesgenerally a no-no in the fruit fly dating scene. The study, published in the Oct.

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