Linked to that article since it's linked directly by the University of New South Wales

http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science/semen-secrets-how-p...

Otherwise, see what one could achieve by leaving out the flies in the headline altogether, leave it to the Brits:

Your baby looks like your ex? This research is scarier than Alien http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/02/baby-lo...

Could previous lovers influence appearance of future children? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11133203/Cou...

So I guess we just made it half-way through the science news cycle: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

Article abstract and (paywalled?) full text here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12373/abstrac...

Interesting if it holds up and is widely applicable. Spontaneously it strikes me that it might have important consequences for female promiscuity.

Potentially dangerously negative consequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegony_(pregnancy) (although this article badly needs a rewrite, I assume the external references are legit).

Yeah, that wikiperida is sketch.

"According to Encyclopedia Britannica, telegony is now classed as superstition.[3]"

This is more amazing than the title makes it sound. This isn't talking about the "Father" of the fly, but a sperm that entered the egg after it was fertilized. Non-genetic inheritance... very interesting. I hope it can be replicated.

Is that what it says? It seemed to suggest that young eggs could be contaminated by a sperm long before they are eventually fertilized.

It's unclear to me what 'contaminated' means here, but I'm not a biologist.

lol ok I guess I deserved that.

More seriously, I love research like this that challenges existing understanding. Of course, if it holds true for humans this certainly opens up a Pandora's Box of sorts (which is what I was aiming for in the above comment).