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One quantitative trait locus for intra- and interspecific variation in a sex pheromone.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2013
Groot A T, Staudacher H, Barthel A, Inglis O, Schöfl G, Santangelo R G, Gebauer-Jung S, Vogel H, Emerson J, Schal C, Heckel D G, Gould F
Abstract excerpt
Even though premating isolation is hypothesized to be a major driving force in speciation, its genetic basis is poorly known. In the noctuid moth Heliothis subflexa, one group of sex pheromone components, the acetates, emitted by the female, plays a crucial isolating role in preventing interspecific matings to males of the closely related Heliothis virescens, in which females do not produce acetates and males are...
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