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When not to copy: female fruit flies use sophisticated public information to avoid mated males.

Sci Rep · 2012 · PMC3480809 · PMID 23105967

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marginally non-significantno p-value reported
However, there was a marginally non-significant tendency for Virgin-controls to be preferred over Mated males ( Fig. 4 , middle bars), suggesting that some females may have been able to detect virginity using odour cues and/or male behaviour.

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