Mating at night does not necessarily lead to offspring, at least in flies: males produce a buzzing sound with their wings that can be perceived by bats. Stefan Greif from the Max Planck Institute for ...

This week, researchers at Oregon State University report evidence that two genes representing key components of the circadian clock somehow also influence sexual behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila.

A circuit in the brain of male vinegar flies has been identified as the coordinator of their complex mating ritual and is distinct from the circuit responsible for ejaculation, a new study finds. The ...

Briceno, R. D., Eberhard, William G., Chinea-Cano, E., Wegrzynek, D., and dos Santos Rolo, T. 2016. "Species-specific differences in the behavior of male tsetse fly ...