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...battle of the sexes, one gene may explain differences in male and female fighting styles, a Harvard Medical School study reported last weekend. Fighting styles in fruit flies, that...
...study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, found that swapping a gene linked to aggression—known as “fruitless”—could make male fruit flies fight like females and could make females fight like males...
Humans do not have a gene analogous to “fruitless,” Kravitz said, and the genetic behavioral patterns seen in the fruit flies cannot be extrapolated to humans...
Kravitz published another study on fruit fly behavior earlier this month, which pitted male flies against each other in fights. The study, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that fruit flies can remember the outcomes of previous battles and that those memories influence their fighting mentality...
Unlike the study on male and female fruit fly aggression, this study may hold relevance for humans. The research, Kravitz said, could help improve psychiatric models on depression and feelings of resignation...