Flies ‘change their tune’ according to female behaviour during courtship
Sian Lewis
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Published online: 07 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41583-026-01043-3 Perturbing female Drosophila behaviour during courtship induces adaptive changes in innate male fly courtship song patterns; these changes are initially retained in subsequent courtship encounters with normal female behaviour, but songs gradually return to innate patterns.