Sex changes the biological clock of female fruit flies, through a “sex peptide” which is transferred from the male during mating.
Credit: Riva et al., 2022, PLOS Genetics, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Sex changes the biological clock of female fruit flies, through a “sex peptide” which is transferred from the male during mating.
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Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010258
Article Title: Mating disrupts morning anticipation in Drosophila melanogaster females
Author Countries: Argentina
Funding: This work was supported by the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (Grants PICT-2016-1042 to S.R.G; PICT 2018-0995 to M.F.C and PICT-2019-091 to D.L.F), the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CRUB (Grant 04/B239 to D.L.F). D.L.F, S.R.G and M.F.C are members of the Argentine Research Council for Science and Technology (CONICET). S.R and J.J.I hold graduate fellowships from CONICET. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLoS Genetics
DOI
10.1371/journal.pgen.1010258
Article Title
Mating disrupts morning anticipation in Drosophila melanogaster females
Article Publication Date
22-Dec-2022
COI Statement
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
