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Single mutation to a sex pheromone receptor provides adaptive specificity between closely related mo...

Single mutation to a sex pheromone receptor provides adaptive specificity between closely related mo...

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Single mutation to a sex pheromone receptor provides adaptive specificity between closely related moth species

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Full title

Single mutation to a sex pheromone receptor provides adaptive specificity between closely related moth species

Publisher

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2012-08, Vol.109 (35), p.14081-14086

Language

English

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Publisher

United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Sex pheromone communication, acting as a prezygotic barrier to mating, is believed to have contributed to the speciation of moths and butterflies in the order Lepidoptera. Five decades after the discovery of the first moth sex pheromone, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that underlie the evolution of pheromone communication between cl...

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Single mutation to a sex pheromone receptor provides adaptive specificity between closely related moth species

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_41701646

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_41701646

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1204661109

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