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SUBMITTER: Fujii T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3207681 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fujii Tsuguru T Fujii Takeshi T Namiki Shigehiro S Abe Hiroaki H Sakurai Takeshi T Ohnuma Akio A Kanzaki Ryohei R Katsuma Susumu S Ishikawa Yukio Y Shimada Toru T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111017 44
In the sex-pheromone communication systems of moths, odorant receptor (Or) specificity as well as higher olfactory information processing in males should be finely tuned to the pheromone of conspecific females. Accordingly, male sex-pheromone preference should have diversified along with the diversification of female sex pheromones; however, the genetic mechanisms that facilitated the diversification of male preference are not well understood. Here, we explored the mechanisms involved in a drast ...[more]