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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Title:		Recognition of female kin by male bees through olfactory signals
Author(s):		Smith BH;
Address:		"Department of Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045"
Journal Title:		Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Year:		1983
Volume:		80
Issue:		14
Page Number:		4551 - 4553
DOI:		10.1073/pnas.80.14.4551
ISSN/ISBN:		0027-8424 (Print) 1091-6490 (Electronic) 0027-8424 (Linking)
Abstract:		"After males of Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) have first been exposed to a conspecific female, the attractiveness of a second female diminishes with increasing genealogical relationship between the two females. The most parsimonious explanation for this is a polygenically controlled female sex pheromone. Nonrandom mating preferences may markedly affect gene flow within and between natural populations. Polygenically controlled sex pheromones probably also enhance kin recognition among females and, thus, influence the evolution of eusocial behavior in bees and wasps"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINESmith, B H eng 1983/07/01 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Jul; 80(14):4551-3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.14.4551"