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Fruit flies' courtship song may hold key to controlling mosquitoes

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University of Iowa researchers have found and confirmed a gene that allows female fruit flies to get on the same frequency as courting males.

Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ritual, meaning that canceling the gene could in theory control mosquito population growth.

The researchers used tiny microphones to pick up sound when a species of male fruit fly flaps its wings.

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