Female flies get turned on – by a light switch
April 19th, 2008 by gio | 3 Comments
In today’s study, scientists tried to activate certain neurons using what could basically thought of as a “light switch”, and observed females performing a characteristic male courtship song. Although the BBC suggestively calls this a “mind-control sex swap”, we are really not looking at the sex of the flies – but rather, at gender-specific behaviors.
