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Specialized odorant receptors in social insects that detect cuticular hydrocarbon cues and candidate pheromones

Eusocial insects use cuticular hydrocarbons as components of pheromones that mediate social behaviours, such as caste and nestmate recognition, and regulation of reproduction. In ants such as Harpegnathos saltator, the queen produces a pheromone which suppresses the development of workers’ ovaries a...

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Autores principales: Pask, Gregory M., Slone, Jesse D., Millar, Jocelyn G., Das, Prithwiraj, Moreira, Jardel A., Zhou, Xiaofan, Bello, Jan, Berger, Shelley L., Bonasio, Roberto, Desplan, Claude, Reinberg, Danny, Liebig, Jürgen, Zwiebel, Laurence J., Ray, Anandasankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5561057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28819196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00099-1