Publication Date:
2011-05-18
Description:
At the heart of evolutionary biology is the endeavor to characterize how descent with modification occurs within species and how these processes can, at times, produce a novel group of individuals different enough from the others in their group that we dub them a new species. We lump the mechanisms that split these individuals (or groups thereof) into two broad categories of pre- and postmating isolation mechanisms, each of which can be further subdivided. It is within the premating class of isolation mechanisms that changes to pheromone systems occur. In general terms, pheromones are sex attractants that a species produces...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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