Contribution of oenocytes and pheromones to courtship behaviour in Drosophila

BACKGROUND: In Drosophila, cuticular sex pheromones are long-chain unsaturated hydrocarbons synthesized from fatty acid precursors in epidermal cells called oenocytes. The species D. melanogaster shows sex pheromone dimorphism, with high levels of monoenes in males, and of dienes in females. Some bi...

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Autores principales: Wicker-Thomas, Claude, Guenachi, Ilhem, Keita, Youssouf F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19671131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2091-10-21

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19671131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2091-10-21

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