Chemical Signalling: Laser on the Fly Reveals a New Male-Specific Pheromone

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Levine, Joel D ^a   Millar, Jocelyn G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; LIPID; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LASER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; LASERS; LIPIDS; MALE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 68149154802     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.051     Document Type: Short Survey

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