How the brain of a fly may help explain human behaviour
Comparing the brains of male and female flies may transform our understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including ours.
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""a really important new avenue in neuroscience""
— Prof Gregory Jefferis , Academic
""We were expecting to find differences, and we found them, and we're excited by what we got.""
— Dr Isabella Beckett , Academic
""The courtship also includes singing to the female.""
— Dr Philipp Schlegel , Academic
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Joint first author of the scientific research paper published in the Journal Cell.
Co-author of the study focused on neuronal circuits in male fruit flies.
Co-lead researcher affiliated with the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology and University of Cambridge.
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Comparing the brains of male and female flies may transform our understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including ours.
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