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One of the mechanisms involved in hearing is similar to the battery in your car. How do researchers know? They heard it in a fruit fly love song.
The auditory system of the fruit fly contains a protein that functions as a sodium/potassium pump, often called the sodium pump for short, and is highly expressed>
