Posted on 04/21/2018 5:10:46 AM PDT by ETL
A probe of the brain’s reward system looks at Drosophila sex (or lack thereof) and drinking.
Moody red lighting in a lab is helping researchers figure out what fruit flies like best about sex.
The question has arisen as scientists try to tease out the neurobiological steps in how the brain’s natural reward system can get hijacked in alcoholism, says neuroscientist Galit Shohat-Ophir of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.
Male fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) were genetically engineered to ejaculate when exposed to a red light.
Ejaculation increased signs in the insects’ brains of a rewarding experience and decreased the lure of alcohol, researchers found.
After several days in this red-light district, the flies tended to prefer a plain sugary beverage over one spiked with ethanol.
Males not exposed to the red light went for the boozier drink, Shohat-Ophir and colleagues report April 19 in Current Biology.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
What makes you think they are not?
A little disheveled from a night’s debauchery!
TMI
LOL...never heard that one before. Sent it to my wife and sister.
LMAO! Sonsa...
Somebody is going to have to invent real tiny keyboards. How else will the flies read their Male Enhancement spam?
Well, of course they do.
Well, the male fruitfly can just forget about getting a children's book or Marvel movie franchise then -- unless he's bisexual. Thanks ETL.
Ah,... good know. Really.. I’m happy this disgusting bug enjoys busting a nut.
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