The Love Song of the Fly

Neurobiologists at Vienna's Research Institute of Molecular Pathology use the mating ritual of the fruit fly to study how the nervous system initiates, controls and utilizes behavior. Using newly developed thermogenetic methods, the researchers are able to initiate the courtship song of the male fly by "remote control", and study the involved neural networks.

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