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Toshihiro Kitamoto

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Genetics Homosexuality Science

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Agree	Does homosexuality have a significant genetic component?	It is reported here that male-male courtship behavior is evoked instantaneously in the fruit fly Drosophila by conditional disruption of synaptic transmission. A temperature-sensitive allele of the Drosophila dynamin gene shibire (shi(ts1)) was expressed by using the GAL4/UAS system to disrupt synaptic transmission from GAL4-positive neurons in a temperature-dependent manner. 01 Oct 2002 Source