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With fruit fly sex, researchers find mind-body connection
11-30-2006 · EurekAlert!The fruit fly gene "doublesex" is responsible for ensuring that male flies look male and females look female. New Brown University research led by biologist Michael McKeown shows that doublesex not only helps shape bodies but also shapes behavior, acting with together with the gene "fruitless" to guide flies' courtship routines and responses. The finding, published in Nature Genetics, shows that sexual development in flies -- and, perhaps, in humans -- is a more complicated proposition than previously thought.
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