Study Illuminates War Between the Sexes: Fruit Fly Edition
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 03:30
in Biology & Nature
Drosophila erecta is an African fruit fly with a big problem: The male sexual organ is so rough that sex acts, almost literally, as a two-edged sword -- necessary for reproduction, but physically injurious. Because evolution places reproduction as first among equals, females have developed overlapping solutions to their dilemma.