Male sex pheromone release and female mate choice in a butterfly

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 964-970

  Andersson, Johan ^a,b   Borg Karlson, Anna Karin ^a   Vongvanich, Namphung ^a   Wiklund, Christer ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androconia; Aphrodisiacs; Courtship; Geranial; Neral; Pieridae; Species specificity; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

CITRAL; SEX PHEROMONE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOTERPENES; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS NAPI;

EID: 34247513950     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02726     Document Type: Article

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