Sex pheromones: abolition of specificity in hybrid bark beetles.

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  • G N Lanier
چکیده

Specificity of sex pheromones maintains breeding isolation among three closely related species of spruce-infesting Ips. Hybrids produced in the laboratory were intermediate to the parent species in both attractiveness and response. Pheromones and pheromone receptor types in the hybrids are probably mixtures of those of the parent species.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 169 3940  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1970