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In many species, males have developed strategies to safeguard their genetic material from dilution by that of competing males. Fruitflies achieve this by altering the behaviour of their partners.

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  1. Leslie C. Griffith is in the Department of Biology, Volen Center for Complex Systems and the National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, USA. griffith@brandeis.edu,

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Griffith, L. Love hangover. Nature 451, 24–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/451024a

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