Fighting female fruit flies (VIDEO)
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Fighting female fruit flies, like the ones shown in this video, are helping researchers understand why we stay angry. Fruit flies, like humans, experience states of persistent aggression. In the case of female fruit flies, this behavior is a survival mechanism, causing the flies to headbutt, shove, and fence other female fruit flies to guard prime egg-laying territory on a ripe banana. Now, by studying these fighting flies, researchers at Janelia and the California Institute of Technology are homing in on the neurons, circuits, and mechanisms responsible for this tenacious behavior.
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