Pheromone evolution and sexual behavior in Drosophila are shaped by male sensory exploitation of other males

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3056-3061

  Ng, Soon Hwee ^a   Shankar, Shruti ^a   Shikichi, Yasumasa ^b   Akasaka, Kazuaki ^c   Mori, Kenji ^b   Yew, Joanne Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TOYO GOSEI CO LTD   (Japan)

^c SHOKEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chiral pheromone; Laser desorption ionization; Male male competition; Sexual selection; Supernormal stimulus

Indexed keywords

SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA ANANASSAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA MOJAVENSIS; DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI; DROSOPHILA YAKUBA; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATE CHOICE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL EXPLOITATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CHIRAL PHEROMONE; LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION; MALE-MALE COMPETITION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SUPERNORMAL STIMULUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84896850447     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313615111     Document Type: Article

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