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Volume 156, Number 1 (July 3, 1999)

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Recipe found for orchid aphrodisiac

Researchers have at last figured out the recipe for one of nature's sexiest perfumes, the scent that drives male bees to try to mate with an Ophrys orchid.

References:

Schiestl, F.P., M. Ayasse, et al. 1999. Orchid pollination by sexual swindle. Nature 399(June 3):421.

Sources:

Manfred Ayasse
University of Vienna
Department of Evolutionary Biology
Institute of Zoology
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Vienna
Austria

Florian P. Schiestl
University of Vienna
Department of Evolutionary Biology
Institute of Zoology
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Vienna
Austria

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 1, July 3, 1999, p. 11. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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