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Genetic Diversity of Sodefrin-Variant Pheromones and Pheromone Responsiveness in Subspecies of the Japanese Sword-Tail Newt Cynops ensicauda
- Tomoaki Nakada,
- Fumiyo Toyoda,
- Atsushi Tominaga,
- Koji Mochida,
- Makoto Yokosuka and
- Sakae Kikuyama
Experiments were conducted to examine whether the abdominal glands of Cynops ensicauda subspecies (C. e. ensicauda and C. e. popei) express different mRNAs for sodefrin-like female-attracting pheromone precursors. A precursor mRNA encoding a novel se...