Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7437, 2013, Pages 345-348

  Niehuis, Oliver ^a,b   Buellesbach, Jan ^b,c   Gibson, Joshua D ^b   Pothmann, Daniela ^d   Hanner, Christian ^c   Mutti, Navdeep S ^b,e   Judson, Andrea K ^b   Gadau, Jürgen ^b   Ruther, Joachim ^d   Schmitt, Thomas ^c,f  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^f DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL CUE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; MAPPING; MATE LOCATION; SEX PHEROMONE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); WASP;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOCHEMISTRY; WASP;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC SPECIATION; LACTONES; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QUINAZOLINES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

EID: 84874192666     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11838     Document Type: Article

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