This work is yet another example of the awesome power of the fruit fly model in biological research!

The paper describes a collaborative project among researchers from 3 countries, examining sire nutritional effects on post-fertilization fitness outcomes.

The findings have potential implications for understanding environmental influences on reproductive health in other animal species, and were written up for media release:

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/fruitfly.html

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