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A male fruitfly serenades his female with a courtship song produced by vibrating one wing. The female also has the neuronal circuitry to generate a song of her own, but her brain tells her not to.

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Figure 1: Shining a light on courtship.

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  1. Jai Y. Yu and Barry J. Dickson are at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 7, 1030 Vienna, Austria. dickson@imp.ac.at ,

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Yu, J., Dickson, B. Hidden female talent. Nature 453, 41–42 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453041a

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