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The nature and nurture of female receptivity
Gorter, Jenneke Anne
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Gorter, J. A. (2018). The nature and nurture of female receptivity: A study in Drosophila melanogaster.
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Propositions accompanying the PhD thesis:
The nature and nurture of female receptivity
A study in Drosophila melanogaster
Jenke A. Gorter
1. Virgin and mated female receptivity are two separate phenotypes with distinct mechanisms (this thesis, chapter 5 and 6)
2. A woman is not easily fooled; illustrated by the need for integration of at least two separate signals in determining food availability and the employment of two or more sensory modalities to determine early social experience (this thesis)
3. Early and immediate social environments have opposite effects on female sexual receptivity (this thesis, chapter 4)
4. The way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach (this thesis, chapter 3) 5. Mating in a group comes highly recommended (this thesis, chapter 4) 6. “One cannot think well, love well and sleep well if one has not dined
well.” (Virginia Woolf )
7. The secret is in finding the right balance, may it be food composition, the right number of conspecifics or time spend between work and home (this thesis, chapter 3 and 4)
8. The post-mating switch may not merely turn off female receptivity, but rather may switch female receptivity from virgin to mated state (this thesis, chapter 5 and 6)
