Aromatized to find mates: α-pinene aroma boosts the mating success of adult olive fruit flies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Gerofotis, Christos D ^a   Ioannou, Charalampos S ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-PINENE; PHEROMONE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FRUIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; OLIVE TREE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FRUIT; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MONOTERPENES; OLEA; PHEROMONES; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 84894168151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081336     Document Type: Article

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