A changing mating signal may initiate speciation in populations of Drosophila mojavensis

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 13:03 in Biology & Nature

When choosing a mate, females of different subspecies of Drosophila mojavensis recognize the right mating partners either mainly by their song or by their smell. This was discovered by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and their international collaboration partners, as a new study reports.

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