Is Air Pollutn Turng F Fli 'Gay'? Not Que. - OUT FRONT

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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.

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.

IS AIR POLLUTN TURNG F FLI ‘GAY’? NOT QUE.

As predicted, they were able to turn fly homosexualy on and off, wh hours. "Sense of smellThe team figured fly bras mata two sensory circus: one to trigger heterosexual behavr and one for homosexual. When GB supprs glutamatergic synaps, the homosexual circu is blocked, the thkg they did more tts.

A study 2005 found that when smellg a chemil om ttosterone, portns of the human bras active sexual activy were turned on gay men and straight women, but not straight at least among u fli, "pheromon are powerful sexual stimuli, " Featherstone said.

"The rearch was published onle today by the journal Nature AnimalsGay Men Rpond Differently to PheromonTop 10 Swgers of the Animal Kgdom.

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