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@article{Schulz1990MalePO,
  title={Male pheromone of swift moth,Hepialus hecta L. (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)},
  author={Stefan Schulz and Wittko Francke and Wilfried A. K{\"o}nig and Volker Schurig and Kenji. Mori and Rolf Kittmann and Dietrich Schneider},
  journal={Journal of Chemical Ecology},
  year={1990},
  volume={16},
  pages={3511-3521},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26903035}
}

Electrophysiological and behavioral experiments with natural material and synthetic samples clearly showed the three heterocyclic compounds to act as pheromones.

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It is supposed that the whole system is of monophyletic origin: female lure glands, male receptor organs, and perhaps even the central nervous machinery are homologous.

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