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Reported Drosophila courtship song rhythms are artifacts of data analysis.
BMC biology - 26 Jun 2014
Stern David L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In a series of landmark papers, Kyriacou, Hall, and colleagues reported that the average inter-pulse interval of Drosophila melanogaster male courtship song varies rhythmically (KH cycles), that the period gene controls this rhythm, and that evolution of the period gene determines species differences in the rhythm's frequency. Several groups failed to recover KH cycles, but this may have resulted from...
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