Chemical love

Nicolas Gompel () and Benjamin Prud'homme ()
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Nicolas Gompel: Nicolas Gompel and Benjamin Prud'homme are at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy, Parc scientifique de Luminy, case 907, 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France.
Benjamin Prud'homme: Nicolas Gompel and Benjamin Prud'homme are at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy, Parc scientifique de Luminy, case 907, 13288 Marseille cedex 9, France.

Nature, 2009, vol. 461, issue 7266, 887-888

Abstract: Male and female fruitflies use pheromones to flaunt their species identity and gender as they court amid other fruitfly species. The grammar of this chemical language is surprisingly sophisticated.

Date: 2009
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