Sex-deprived fruit flies drink more alcohol: New study could uncover answers for human addictions
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 03:10
in Biology & Nature
Sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of a sad-sack Raymond Carver story: when female fruit flies reject their sexual advances, the males are driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far more than comparable, sexually satisfied male flies.