Contents:
AIR POLLUTN MIGHT BE TURNG F FLI GAY
While several studi fd homosexualy humans and other animals is blogil rather than learned, a qutn remas over whether 's a hard-wired phenomenon or one that n be altered. A new study fds dgs or geic manipulatn n turn the homosexual behavr of u fli on and off wh a matter of hours.
IS AIR POLLUTN TURNG F FLI ‘GAY’? NOT QUE.
While the geic fdg supports the thkg that homosexualy is hard-wired, the dg fdg surprisgly suggts 's not that fact, homosexualy the u fli seems to be regulated by how they terpret the scent of another. Dramatic rultHomosexualy is wispread the animal world.
But scientists have long bated whether, humans a "gay gene" exists.
"Based on our prev work, we reasoned that GB mutants might show homosexual behavr bee their glutamatergic synaps were altered some way, " Featherstone said. "Homosexual urtship might be sort of an 'overreactn' to sexual stimuli. As predicted, they were able to turn fly homosexualy on and off, wh hours.