Decoding the genetic and chemical basis of sexual attractiveness in parasitic wasps.

ABSTRACT: Attracting and securing potential mating partners is of fundamental importance for reproduction. Therefore, signaling sexual attractiveness is expected to be tightly coordinated in communication systems synchronizing senders and receivers. Chemical signaling has permeated through all taxa of life as the earliest and most widespread form of communication and is particularly prevalent in insects. However, it has been notoriously difficult to decipher how exactly information related to sexual signaling is encoded in complex chemical profiles. Similarly, our knowledge of the genetic basis of sexual signaling is very limited and usually restricted to a few case studies with comparably simple pheromonal communication mechanisms. The present study jointly addresses these two knowledge gaps by cha

SUBMITTER: Sun W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10435230 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature