References & Sources - January 16, 1999
Mutant flies can't get no satisfaction
A newly discovered fruit-fly gene regulates both male and female sexual behavior in the insects.
Finley, K.D. . . . M. McKeown. 1998. Dissatisfaction encodes a tailless-like nuclear receptor expressed in a subset of CNS neurons controlling drosophila sexual behavior. Neuron 21(December):1.
Sources:
Michael McKeown
Salk Institute of Biological Studies
Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory
San Diego, CA 92186
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 3, January 16, 1999, p. 43. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
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