Allelic variation in a fatty-acyl reductase gene causes divergence in moth sex pheromones

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7305, 2010, Pages 486-489

  Lassance, Jean Marc ^a   Groot, Astrid T ^b   Liénard, Marjorie A ^a   Antony, Binu ^a   Borgwardt, Christin ^b   Andersson, Fredrik ^c   Hedenström, Erik ^c   Heckel, David G ^b   Löfstedt, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FATTY ACYL REDUCTASE; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DIVERGENCE; ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOTH; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEX PHEROMONE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; ISOMERISM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS;

EID: 77954951585     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09058     Document Type: Article

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