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