Identification of a receptor for the sex pheromone of the vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus by Jacob A. Corcoran, Walter F. Mahaffee

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Olfactory attraction of the hornet Vespa velutina to honeybee colony odors and pheromones. by Antoine Couto, Karine Monceau, Olivier Bonnard, Denis Thiéry, Jean-Christophe Sandoz

“…When testing specific compounds, the honeybee aggregation pheromone, geraniol, proved highly attractive. Pheromones produced by honeybee larvae or by the queen were also of interest to hornet workers, albeit to a lesser extent. …”
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Hexokinase Is Required for Sex Pheromone Biosynthesis in <i>Helicoverpa armigera</i> by Yanpeng Chang, Yunhui Zhang, Zichen Geng, Shuangyan Yao, Wenli Zhao, Xinming Yin, Shiheng An

“…Acetyl-CoA, the precursor of sex pheromone biosynthesis in <i>Helicoverpa armigera</i>, is generated from glycolysis. …”
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Emerging Inter-Swarm Collaboration for Surveillance Using Pheromones and Evolutionary Techniques by Daniel H. Stolfi, Matthias R. Brust, Grégoire Danoy, Pascal Bouvry

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Tactical release of a sexually-selected pheromone in a swordtail fish. by Gil G Rosenthal, Jessica N Fitzsimmons, Kristina U Woods, Gabriele Gerlach, Heidi S Fisher

“…However, it is unclear whether females are attending to passively produced cues, or to pheromones produced in the context of communication.…”
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A closer look at sex pheromone autodetection in the Oriental fruit moth by Alicia Pérez-Aparicio, Byrappa Ammagarahalli, César Gemeno

“…Abstract Female moths emit sex pheromone to attracts males, and although they are not attracted to their own sex pheromone, they appear to detect it as it affects their behavior. …”
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Intraspecific Variation in Female Sex Pheromone of the Codling Moth Cydia pomonella by Claire Duménil, Gary J. R. Judd, Dolors Bosch, Mario Baldessari, César Gemeno, Astrid T. Groot

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Variation in courtship ultrasounds of three Ostrinia moths with different sex pheromones. by Takuma Takanashi, Ryo Nakano, Annemarie Surlykke, Haruki Tatsuta, Jun Tabata, Yukio Ishikawa, Niels Skals

“…Moths use ultrasounds as well as pheromones for sexual communication. In closely related moth species, variations in ultrasounds and pheromones are likely to profoundly affect mate recognition, reproductive isolation, and speciation. …”
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Trail pheromone of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). by Dong-Hwan Choe, David B Villafuerte, Neil D Tsutsui

“…More than 30 years ago, studies showed that (Z)-9-hexadecenal strongly attracted Argentine ant workers in a multi-choice olfactometer, suggesting that (Z)-9-hexadecenal might be the trail pheromone, or a component of a trail pheromone mixture. …”
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Identification and Functional Analysis of the Pheromone Response Factor Gene of Sporisorium scitamineum by Guining Zhu, Guining Zhu, Yizhen Deng, Enping Cai, Meixin Yan, Meixin Yan, Guobing Cui, Zhiqiang Wang, Chengwu Zou, Bin Zhang, Pinggen Xi, Changqing Chang, Baoshan Chen, Zide Jiang

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Cuticular Hydrocarbons as Contact Sex Pheromone in the Parasitoid Wasp Urolepis rufipes by Josef Würf, Tamara Pokorny, Johannes Wittbrodt, Jocelyn G. Millar, Joachim Ruther

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Potential for using pheromone trapping and molecular screening in phosphine resistance research by Daglish, Gregory J., Jagadeesan, Rajeswaran, Singarayan, Virgine, Nath, Nisa S., Schlipalius, David I., Ebert, Paul R., Nayak, Manoj K.

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Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Multifidene, a Sex Pheromone of Brown Algae by Taiki Umezawa, Misaki Hara, Nana Kinoshita-Terauchi, Fuyuhiko Matsuda

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Male Courtship Pheromones Induce Cloacal Gaping in Female Newts (Salamandridae). by Sunita Janssenswillen, Franky Bossuyt

“…Pheromones are an important component of sexual communication in courting salamanders, but the number of species in which their use has been demonstrated with behavioral evidence remains limited. …”
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Extracellular modulation of the silkmoth sex pheromone receptor activity by cyclic nucleotides. by Tatsuro Nakagawa, Kazushige Touhara

“…Odorants and pheromones are essential to insects as chemical cues for finding food or an appropriate mating partner. …”
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Integrated action of pheromone signals in promoting courtship behavior in male mice by Sachiko Haga-Yamanaka, Limei Ma, Jie He, Qiang Qiu, Luke D Lavis, Loren L Looger, C Ron Yu

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Responses to Pheromones in a Complex Odor World: Sensory Processing and Behavior by Nina Deisig, Fabienne Dupuy, Sylvia Anton, Michel Renou

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Allelic exchange of pheromones and their receptors reprograms sexual identity in Cryptococcus neoformans. by Brynne C Stanton, Steven S Giles, Mark W Staudt, Emilia K Kruzel, Christina M Hull

“…To identify the mechanism by which the C. neoformans sexes are determined, we created strains in which the pheromone and pheromone receptor from one mating type (a) replaced the pheromone and pheromone receptor of the other (alpha). …”
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Genetic control of conventional and pheromone-stimulated biofilm formation in Candida albicans. by Ching-Hsuan Lin, Shail Kabrawala, Emily P Fox, Clarissa J Nobile, Alexander D Johnson, Richard J Bennett

“…Opaque cells are the sexually competent form of C. albicans and therefore undergo efficient polarized growth and mating in the presence of pheromone. In contrast, white cells cannot mate, but are induced - under a specialized set of conditions - to form biofilms in response to pheromone. …”
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Modelling multi-rotor UAVs swarm deployment using virtual pheromones. by Fidel Aznar, Mar Pujol, Ramón Rizo, Carlos Rizo

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