Sympatric speciation: perfume preferences of orchid bee lineages.
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.
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Duncan E
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University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK. duncan@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
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
D010476:Perfume