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Chemical love

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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.)

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.

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  • Nicolas Gompel & Benjamin Prud'homme, 2009. "Chemical love," Nature, Nature, vol. 461(7266), pages 887-888, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:461:y:2009:i:7266:d:10.1038_461887a
    DOI: 10.1038/461887a
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