bric à brac controls sex pheromone choice by male European corn borer moths

The sex pheromone system of ~160,000 moth species acts as a powerful form of assortative mating whereby females attract conspecific males with a species-specific blend of volatile compounds. Understanding how female pheromone production and male preference coevolve to produce this diversity requires...

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Published in:	Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 2818 - 11
Main Authors:	Unbehend, Melanie, Kozak, Genevieve M., Koutroumpa, Fotini, Coates, Brad S., Dekker, Teun, Groot, Astrid T., Heckel, David G., Dopman, Erik B.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.05.2021 Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio
Subjects:	14 38/32 38/39 45 45/41 45/43 631/158/856 631/181/2474 631/181/759 631/208/1515 9/10 Aldehyde Oxidoreductases Aldehyde Oxidoreductases - genetics Aldehyde Oxidoreductases - metabolism Alleles Animals Assortative mating Borers Butterflies & moths Corn Divergence Evolution, Molecular Evolutionary Biology Evolutionsbiologi Female Females Gene Expression Regulation Genes Genes, Insect Genetic modification Genome editing Genome-wide association studies Genome-Wide Association Study Humanities and Social Sciences Inbreeding Insect Proteins Insect Proteins - genetics Insect Proteins - metabolism Life Sciences Linkage Disequilibrium Male Males Mating Mating Preference, Animal Mating Preference, Animal - physiology Moths Moths - genetics Moths - physiology multidisciplinary Neural coding Ostrinia nubilalis Pheromone gland Pheromones Polymorphism, Genetic Quantitative Trait Loci Recombination, Genetic Reductases Science Science (multidisciplinary) Sex Attractants Sex Attractants - genetics Sex Attractants - physiology Sex linkage Sex pheromone Transcription Factors Transcription Factors - genetics Transcription Factors - metabolism Variation Volatile compounds
ISSN:	2041-1723, 2041-1723
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