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Fruity aphrodisiacs

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Some fruit odours sexually arouse male fruitflies. The response is mediated by olfactory neurons that are sensitive to food smells and plug into the brain's neural circuit for sexual behaviour. See Letter p.236

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Figure 1: When neurons meet.
Figure 2: Romantic setting.

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  1. Benjamin Prud'homme and Nicolas Gompel are at Aix-Marseille University, Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy, CNRS UMR 6216, Case 907, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France.,

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Prud'homme, B., Gompel, N. Fruity aphrodisiacs. Nature 478, 190–191 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/478190a

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