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Moths Behaving like Butterflies. Evolutionary Loss of Long Range Attractant Pheromones in Castniid Moths: A Paysandisia archon Model

BACKGROUND: In the course of evolution butterflies and moths developed two different reproductive behaviors. Whereas butterflies rely on visual stimuli for mate location, moths use the ‘female calling plus male seduction’ system, in which females release long-range sex pheromones to attract conspeci...

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Autores principales: Sarto i Monteys, Víctor, Acín, Patricia, Rosell, Glòria, Quero, Carmen, Jiménez, Miquel A., Guerrero, Angel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3251578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22238600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029282