The origin and evolution of social insect queen pheromones: Novel hypotheses and outstanding problems.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Bioessays

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/bies.201400180PMID 25916998
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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