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Scents for safe sex: a volatile sex pheromone promotes outbreeding in a parasitoid wasp with severe genetic load
Xavier Fauvergue, Karolina Pecharová, Inessa Buch…·Benoît Lapeyre
The paper identifies a volatile sex pheromone in Mastrus ridens wasps that promotes outbreeding by guiding mate finding, with methyl 6-methylsalicylate as a putative component.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.01.756042