Behavioural and genetic analyses of Nasonia shed light on the evolution of sex pheromones

Oliver Niehuis (), Jan Buellesbach, Joshua D. Gibson, Daniela Pothmann, Christian Hanner, Navdeep S. Mutti, Andrea K. Judson, Jürgen Gadau, Joachim Ruther and Thomas Schmitt
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Oliver Niehuis: Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Jan Buellesbach: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Joshua D. Gibson: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Daniela Pothmann: University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Christian Hanner: Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Navdeep S. Mutti: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Andrea K. Judson: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Jürgen Gadau: School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Joachim Ruther: University of Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Thomas Schmitt: Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

Nature, 2013, vol. 494, issue 7437, 345-348

Abstract: A genetic and behavioural study in related species of Nasonia wasps reveals how pheromone changes relevant to speciation could evolve through genes creating a new pheromone component by changing the stereochemistry of an existing pheromone molecule.

Date: 2013
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