Splendipherin: The aquatic male sex pheromone of the magnificent tree frog litoria splendida

Pheromones: Theories, Types and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-214

  Bowie, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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