"Males do a lot for their babies," says Berglund, "but it's not so cute as one would have imagined".
Once a female comes to the bower, the male does a mating dance -- puffing its feathers, extending its wings and running while making a buzzing noise.
The general manager of the bookstore told a detective that "he saw a white male do a somersault and then jump off the conveyor belt," the affidavit said.
The αERKO males do show a decrease in bone mineral density, a phenotype that is similar to one clinical case of estrogen insensitivity in a man [ 26].
The males do emit a musky cologne during mating season, but the animal is not an ox.
Their research, which appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that while there were no superdads, some males did have a slight edge.
Furthermore, ppk23-feminized males did show a significant increase in the fruF specific transcripts in their appendages (Fig. 4A).
First, mated females defecate on food more often than virgin females or males do: probably a result of their increased egg laying activity.
We found that males did exhibit a higher level of activity than females throughout the same 6-h period we had tested in our dispersal assay.
We dismissed her as an ersatz male doing on a broad political level what women's role in the home and family traditionally entailed.
