Dufour's Gland: Source of Sex Pheromone in a Hymenopterous Parasitoid

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 1976 Aug 20

PMID 948746

Citations 6

Authors

R M Weseloh

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Abstract

Females of Apanteles melanoscelus and Apanteles liparidis produce a sex pheromone in Dufour's gland of their reproductive system. Males of both species exhibit premating behavior when in contact with filter paper smears of the gland of their respective females.

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