10oct2014

i'm trying to comprehend the following: "In choosing a mate, females select traits they like that will be -inherited by their offspring and the study found one gene, named dati, that, when mutated, rendered the female flies incapable of deciding whether to mate or not and the females that are mutant for just this single gene can never decide to accept males, no matter how hard the males try to impress them."
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/it-takes-just-15-mins-for-females-to-pick-their-partners-114100800120_1.html