FRUIT FLY POST COITUS. “Females respond to mating in diverse ways that include physiological, anatomical and behavioural changes. In Drosophila melanogaster, the well-characterized female post-mating response involves changes in expression levels of thousands of genes in both the reproductive tract and elsewhere in the soma, with a strong temporal pattern.”
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