Elevated ozone disrupts mating boundaries in drosophilid flies

Abstract Animals employ different strategies to establish mating boundaries between closely related species, with sex pheromones often playing a crucial role in identifying conspecific mates. Many of these pheromones have carbon-carbon double bonds, making them vulnerable to oxidation by certain atm...

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Main Authors: Nan-Ji Jiang, Xinqi Dong, Daniel Veit, Bill S. Hansson, Markus Knaden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47117-7