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Inheritance of central neuroanatomy and physiology related to pheromone preference in the male European corn borer.
BMC evolutionary biology - 16 Sept 2010
Kárpáti Zsolt, Olsson Shannon, Hansson Bill S, Dekker Teun
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BACKGROUND: The European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis, is a textbook example of pheromone polymorphism. Males of the two strains (Z and E) prefer opposite ratios of the two pheromone components, Z11- and E11-tetradecenyl acetate, with a sex-linked factor underlying this difference in preference. The male antennal lobes of the two strains contain a pheromone sensitive macroglomerular complex (MGC) that is...
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