Mating Drives Salt Craving in Flies (IMAGE)

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Mating Drives Salt Craving in Flies

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Researchers at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon discover that fruit flies share the human craving for salt during pregnancy and shed light on how the nervous system controls this behavior.

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Francisco Romero

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