title: Pheromone evolution in the protozoan ciliate, Euplotes: the ability to synthesize diffusible forms is ancestral and secondarily lost.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare Cellulare Animale, University of Camerino, Italy. adriana.vallesi@unicam.it
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vallesi
authors.forename: Graziano Di
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Giuseppe
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dini
authors.forename: Pierangelo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Luporini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017931:DNA Primers; D004058:Diffusion; D016812:Euplotes / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010675:Pheromones / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D010675:Pheromones