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BioMed Research International
Volume 2015, Article ID 202965, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/202965
Research Article

Species Specificity of the Putative Male Antennal Aphrodisiac Pheromone in Leptopilina heterotoma, Leptopilina boulardi, and Leptopilina victoriae

Ingmar Weiss,1,2 Joachim Ruther,1 and Johannes Stökl1

1Institute for Zoology, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
2Institute of Biology, Free University of Berlin, Haderslebener Straße 9, 12163 Berlin, Germany

Received 4 September 2015; Accepted 9 December 2015

Academic Editor: Sanford I. Bernstein

Copyright © 2015 Ingmar Weiss et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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