Fruit flies (Melanugastar fruit flyA very fond of fermented food. Technically, it is the yeast that they yearn for, which is produced by delicious rotting fruits, but it can consume a lot of ethanol as a result of this fruit food. Yes, fruit flies quickly have metabolism, whenever it is better to burn alcohol, but they can still drunk drunk-to the point that the randi male fruit flies were known that other males are wrongly and failed to mate successfully.
Then again, it seems that adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sexual pheromones in male fruit flies, according to a new paper published in the magazine of Science Advances. This, in turn, makes it more attractive to female species.
“A direct and positive effect of alcohol consumption on the success of mating for male flies,” The co -author Ian Casey said From the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. “The effect of the fact that alcohol, especially methanol, increases the production of sexual aircraft. This in turn makes alcoholic males more attractive to females and ensures a high rate of mating success, while the success of male humans is likely to be drunk with females doubtful.”
Fruits are the work of modern genetic research, and are used to study everything from cancer to sleep disorders. It makes excellent typical systems because they share many genes with humans, in addition to being cheap and easy to reproduce, and can be easily changed. Several years ago, I had the honor to visit the University of California, San Francisco Laboratory for Genetic Behavior, Ulrrick Haberlin, who spent years drunk fruit in the “genes scale” to learn about the various genes that affect alcohol tolerance. (Hebelein is now the director of the scientific program and laboratory head at the Howard Hughes Institute Giannia farm research))