Females Spread Wings, Engage

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'Wing spreading' adaptation in fruit flies offers insights into female courtship behavior

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Researchers find novel courtship behavior in female Drosophila santomea, a fruit fly species native to the island of São Tomé off the coast of West Africa .

Researchers found that evolution has reused a pair of neurons that regulates a conserved female abdomen behavior to also control wing spreading.

The discovery of this newly evolved novel behavior is particularly exciting to the evolutionary neurobiology lab.

By focusing on female-initiated behaviors, the study highlights what is possible in evolution's toolkit, sparking new questions about the complex dynamics of communication in the animal kingdom. More information: Minhao Li et al, Ancestral neural circuits potentiate the origin of a female sexual behavior in Drosophila , Nature Communications ( 2024 ). DOI: 10.1038 /s41467-024-53610-w Journal information: Nature Communications Provided by University of Pennsylvania .

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