Mother fruit flies use sex pheromones to veil eggs, preventing cannibalism

Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 19:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers report how fruit flies, which lay eggs communally, use chemical deception to protect their eggs from being cannibalized by their own larvae.

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