There Is Now a Gene to Provide an Excuse for Why You Are Relentlessly Denied by Women

Despite the fact that courtship has been investigated for a long time, the genes and circuits that allow females to generate these mutually exclusive responses remain largely unknown,” a new study from Case-Western researchers noted, before identifying the gene in question.

“The Krüppel-like transcription factor datilógrafo (dati) is required for proper locomotion and courtship acceptance in adult Drosophila females. dati mutant females are completely unable to decode male courtship and almost invariably reject males.” 

A single gene in the entire code of the female fruit fly determines whether she is capable or not of accepting or rejecting a male’s advances. When that single gene is mutated, the poor female fruit fly can’t decide, in her incredibly tiny mind, what to do. The researchers have found what makes a female drosophila capable of choosing a mate. They have found the button that gets turned on or off. 

Drosophila flies, by the way, are used for all kinds of neurological research that applies to human beings because Drosophila has sixty percent of the same genes as people. Drosophila have a brain divided into different compartments that uses the same neurotransmitters which humans use to communicate between them, too.

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