Sex pheromones: abolition of specificity in hybrid bark beetles.
Specificity of sex pheromones maintains breeding isolation among three closely related species of spruce-infesting Ips. Hybrids produced in the laboratory were intermediate to the parent species in both attractiveness and response. Pheromones and pheromone receptor types in the hybrids are probably mixtures of those of the parent species.
D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera; D005260:Female; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008297:Male; D010675:Pheromones / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011955:Receptors, Drug; D014197:Trees
D010675:Pheromones; D011955:Receptors, Drug