Modulation of fatty acid elongation in cockroaches sustains sexually dimorphic hydrocarbons and female attractiveness

• Xiao-Jin Pei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Yong-Liang Fan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yfan@nwafu.edu.cn (Y-LF); txliu@nwafu.edu.cn (T-XL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Yu Bai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology and Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Tian-Tian Bai,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Coby Schal,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7195-6358

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• Zhan-Feng Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

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• Nan Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology and Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Sheng Li,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology and Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4217-2367

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• Tong-Xian Liu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yfan@nwafu.edu.cn (Y-LF); txliu@nwafu.edu.cn (T-XL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management on Crops in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7686-0686

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