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Exceptional Use of Sex Pheromones by Parasitoids of the Genus Cotesia: Males Are Strongly Attracted to Virgin Females, but Are No Longer Attracted to or Even Repelled by Mated Females
Sex pheromones have rarely been studied in parasitoids, and it remains largely unknown how male and female parasitoids locate each other. We investigated possible attraction (and repellency) between the sexes of two braconid wasps belonging to the same genus, the gregarious parasitoid, Cotesia glome...
Autores principales: | Xu, Hao, Veyrat, Nathalie, Degen, Thomas, Turlings, Ted C. J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26462821 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects5030499 |
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