THE sexual preferences of drunk fruit flies will help reveal how alcohol loosens human sexual inhibitions, according to researchers studying the effect of repeated alcohol consumption on the flies’ courtship behaviour.
and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, used a chamber dubbed the “Flypub” to observe the influence of alcohol on the sexual behaviour of male Drosophila flies. The researchers through the Flypub’s transparent ceiling.
Male Drosophila will normally only court females, following them…
