According to a new study, male fruit flies drink alcohol are becoming more attractive for women.
Adding alcohol to men’s food increases the release of chemicals that attract women and lead to higher mating success.
Fruit flies or Drosophila melanogaster is usually found around our food waste boxes, while gradually feeding with rotting fruits that produce alcohol.
Scientists are trying to investigate why they withdraw alcohol and how they affected them.
Previous research, flies are an euphoric state or a replace mating Among the men rejected by women.
Bill Hanson, Head of the Department of Evolutionary Neuroetology of the Max Planck Institute, a working writer, shows that such research has received an anthropomorphic opinion about flies behavior, whereas this last work gives flies a reproductive advantage.
“We don’t think flies drink alcohol because because they’re depressed,” he said.
He added that the withdrawal of flies to both carbohydrates and rotting fruits and the withdrawal of alcohol to Maya.
In the study, alcohol and especially methanol increased the production of men and the release of chemical sex signals called pheromones, which made them more attractive for women.
Pheromones are released from an individual to air to influence the behavior of another animal of the same species.
For this reason, men, especially men who never mated, were strongly affected by alcohol.
The new study also showed that the response of flies to the fragrant alcohol was controlled by three different neural circuits in the brain.
Although the two are responsible for pulling the male flies with a small amount of alcohol, the third is the third excessive amounts of deterrence.
Since alcohol is toxic, the flies should carefully weigh the risks and benefits of drinking the brain and balance the gravitational signals with reluctance.
“This means that flies have a control mechanism that allows them to get all the benefits of alcohol consumption without risking alcohol poisoning,” Nebraska University Chief Writer Ian Keesey said. He said.
For their research, researchers combined physiological studies such as imaging techniques, chemical analysis of environmental odors and behavioral studies to visualize processes in the fly brain.
The article was published in the magazine Science progress.
