World-wide variation in Drosophila melanogaster sex pheromone: behavioural effects, genetic bases and potential evolutionary consequences.

doi:10.1007/BF00132583

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World-wide variation in Drosophila melanogaster sex pheromone: behavioural effects, genetic bases and potential evolutionary consequences.

Genetica - 1 Jan 1996

Ferveur J F, Cobb M, Boukella H, Jallon J M

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In Drosophila melanogaster, male wing vibration, a key element of courtship behaviour, is most efficiently induced by a female-specific contact pheromone cis, cis 7,11 heptacosadiene (7,11 HD), which is the main mature female cuticular hydrocarbon in the CS laboratory strain. A study of 63 strain...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
Chromosome Mapping
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genetic Testing
Genetic Variation
Male
Sex Attractants
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Species Specificity

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