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Antennal grooming facilitates courtship performance in a group-living insect, the German cockroach Blattella germanica
The antennae of adult male German cockroaches detect a contact sex pheromone embedded in the female’s cuticular lipids. The female pheromone stimulates courtship behavior in males, notably a wing-raising (WR) display. Within aggregations, however, cuticular lipids are disseminated by contact among g...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6393502/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30814635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39868-x |