Fruit fly Drosophila mercatorum (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Fruit fly Drosophila mercatorum

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Researchers have identified the genes that are switched on, or switched off, when these flies reproduce without fathers.

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Jose Casal and Peter Lawrence

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