During mating, male fruit flies introduce females with a substance that puts them to sleep so that they don’t mate with other males, according to a study conducted by scientists from Argentina’s Bariloche Atomic Center and the Fundación Instituto Leloir—IIBBA—CONICET.
The team reveals its webcam-based study of fruit fly mating in their lab in a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS Genetics.
