title: Sympatric speciation: perfume preferences of orchid bee lineages.
abstract: Female attraction to an environmentally derived mating signal released by male orchid bees may be tightly linked to shared olfactory preferences of both sexes. A change in perfume preference may have led to divergence of two morphologically distinct lineages.
authors.affiliation: University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. duncan@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Duncan E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005260:Female; D035264:Flowers; D005828:Genetics, Population; D008297:Male; D052586:Mating Preference, Animal; D009812:Odorants; D029595:Orchidaceae; D010476:Perfume; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D010476:Perfume