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Science 26 February 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3973, pp. 815 - 817
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3973.815
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Sex Attractant in a Brown Alga: Chemical Structure

D. G. Müller 1, L. Jaenicke 2, M. Donike 2, and T. Akintobi 2

1 Max Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung, 5 Cologne 30, West Germany
2 Institut für Biochemie der Universität Köln, S Cologne 1, West Germany

The male-attracting substance produced by the female gametes of the marine brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus was identified as allo-cis-1-(cycloheptadien-2',5'-yl)-butene-1.


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