To court or to eat? That is the question- Scientific Blog covering our story

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In a recent paper, researchers from the University of Birmingham asked these questions using our favorite model organism, the fly Drosophila melanogaster. The study led by Dr. Carolina Rezaval investigated how flies decide between two very important behaviors for its survival: feeding or courting a female. They analyzed the underlying neuronal mechanisms, in other words, which specific neurons in the brain, and which cues from the environment and from inside the animal are essential to make this behavioral decision.