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Male fruit flies found to transfer chemical to females to induce sleep, so they won’t mate with other males

A team of researchers from Argentina's Bariloche Atomic Center and Fundación Instituto Leloir, IIBBA and CONICET have discovered that male fruit flies inject females with a chemical. It causes them to sleep after mating so that they do not mate with other males. The group...