Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

The evolution of sexual signaling is linked to odorant receptor tuning in perfume-collecting orchid bees

  • Philipp Brand,
  • Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz,
  • Ricardo Ayala,
  • Michael Daigle,
  • Carmen L. Yurrita Obiols,
  • Thomas Eltz,
  • Santiago R. Ramírez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14162-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Male orchid bees collect scents from the environment to attract females for mating. Here, Brand et al. combine population genomic, perfume chemistry, and functional analyses to show how divergence in odorant receptor genes may be driving reproductive divergence between two orchid bee species.