Fruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 21:28 in Biology & Nature

The sperm of male fruit flies are coated with a chemical 'sex peptide' which inhibits the female's usual afternoon siesta and compels her into an intense period of foraging activity.

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