Fruit Fly Mating (IMAGE)

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Fruit Fly Mating

Caption

The steps of mating behavior in Drosophila subobscura include tapping (A1), scissoring (A2), midleg swing (A3), proboscis extension (A4), nuptial gift (A5), wing extension (A6) and attempted copulation (A7).

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Tanaka et al., <i>JNeurosci</i> (2017)

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