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What can a power ballad can teach us about the sex life of a fruit flies?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Music provides the soundtrack to our lives. The highs, the lows and the heartache. So why wouldn’t it be the same for a fruit fly? On this episode of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast, we mix music with sex education of fruit flies!

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
People
Stuart Wigby
Sally Le Page
Eleanor Bath
Keywords
fruit flies
sex
mating
zoology
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 27/01/2017
Duration: 00:11:00

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