Male and female fruitflies use pheromones to flaunt their species identity and gender as they court amid other fruitfly species. The grammar of this chemical language is surprisingly sophisticated.
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Gompel, N., Prud'homme, B. Chemical love. Nature 461, 887–888 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461887a
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