Selectivity of odorant-binding proteins from the southern house mosquito tested against physiologically relevant ligands by Jiao eYin, Young-Moo eChoo, Hongxia eDuan, Walter Soares Leal

“…Based on dissociation constants, we surmised that CquiOBP2 is a carrier for the oviposition attractant skatole, whereas CquiOBP1 and CquiOBP5 might transport the oviposition pheromone MOP, a human-derived attractant nonanal, and the insect repellent picardin. …”
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Caste-, sex-, and age-dependent expression of immune-related genes in a Japanese subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus. by Yuki Mitaka, Kazuya Kobayashi, Kenji Matsuura

“…In addition, although R. speratus is known to use the antibacterial peptide C-type lysozyme as an egg recognition pheromone, we determined that R. speratus has not only C-type, but also P-type and I-type lysozymes, as well as other termite species. …”
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Self-administration of a Salmonella vaccine by domestic pigs by Rebecca C. Robbins, Courtney Archer, Luis G. Giménez-Lirola, Juan Carlos Mora-Díaz, John J. McGlone

“…By adding an attractant (pig maternal pheromone), the use of EE devices by individual pigs can be increased. …”
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Multimodal and multifunctional signaling? - Web reduction courtship behavior in a North American population of the false black widow spider. by Andreas Fischer, Xiang Hao Goh, Jamie-Lynne S Varney, Adam J Blake, Stephen Takács, Gerhard Gries

“…The signal produced by a male likely entails a volatile silk-borne pheromone, but may also embody a gauge of his endurance (the amount of time he engages in web reduction causing web vibrations).…”
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Honey Bee Inhibitory Signaling Is Tuned to Threat Severity and Can Act as a Colony Alarm Signal. by Ken Tan, Shihao Dong, Xinyu Li, Xiwen Liu, Chao Wang, Jianjun Li, James C Nieh

“…Meanwhile, nest defenders were triggered by the bee alarm pheromone and live hornet presence to heat-ball the hornet. …”
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Farnesol as an antifungal agent: comparisons among MTLa and MTLα haploid and diploid Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Cory H. T. Boone, Kory A. Parker, Daniel J. Gutzmann, Audrey L. Atkin, Kenneth W. Nickerson

“…Based on the structural similarity between farnesol and the farnesylated portion of the MTLa pheromone, we explored the effects of ploidy and mating type locus (MTL) on the antifungal activity of exogenous farnesol.Methods and results: We approached this question by examining five MTLa and five MTLα haploid strains with regard to their farnesol sensitivity in comparison to six heterozygous MTLa/α diploids. …”
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Systematic discovery of unannotated genes in 11 yeast species using a database of orthologous genomic segments by Byrne Kevin P, Armisén David, ÓhÉigeartaigh Seán S, Wolfe Kenneth H

“…We found additional genes for the mating pheromone a-factor in six species including <it>Kluyveromyces lactis</it>.…”
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The Survey of Safety Climate and its Impact on Perceived Stress in the Workers of a Tile Industry in 2018 by Ehsan Bakhshi, Mojtaba Ahmadi, Reza Kalantari

“…Job stress is a harmful pheromone in the industries that have been a concerning issue in recent years. …”
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Modeling robustness tradeoffs in yeast cell polarization induced by spatial gradients. by Ching-Shan Chou, Qing Nie, Tau-Mu Yi

“…For example, yeast cells form a mating projection toward the source of mating pheromone. There are specific challenges associated with cell polarization including amplification of shallow external gradients of ligand to produce steep internal gradients of protein components (e.g. localized distribution), response over a broad range of ligand concentrations, and tracking of moving signal sources. …”
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202 A CTS Team Approach to Immune Signatures of PTSD Susceptibility by Courtney S. Wilkinson, Adithya Gopinath, Habibeh Koshbouei, Marek Schwednt, Lori A. Knackstedt

“…METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Sprague-Dawley rats (half male) were exposed to predator scent stress in the form of the fox pheromone 2,5-dihydro-2,4,5-trimethylthiazoline (TMT) once for 10 minutes. …”
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Identification and expression profiles of candidate chemosensory receptors in Histia rhodope (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae) by Haibo Yang, Junfeng Dong, Ya-Lan Sun, Zhenjie Hu, Qi-Hui Lyu, Dingxu Li

“…Notably, two candidate pheromone receptors (PRs) were identified within a novel PR lineage. qRT-PCR results showed that almost all tested genes (22/24) were predominantly expressed in antennae, indicating that they may be important in olfactory function. …”
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Modeling Analysis of Signal Sensitivity and Specificity by Vibrio fischeri LuxR Variants. by Deanna M Colton, Eric V Stabb, Stephen J Hagen

“…The LuxR protein of the bacterium Vibrio fischeri belongs to a family of transcriptional activators that underlie pheromone-mediated signaling by responding to acyl-homoserine lactones (-HSLs) or related molecules. …”
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Regularity in distribution, and control, of pests in the hall of mental cultivation, the Forbidden City, Beijing, China by Guoqing Zhang, An Gu, Le Wei

“…Fumigation should be done in July and August, while chemical spray should be done referring to the florescence of outdoor trees (March to June), and used of pheromone is reasonable preventative measures.…”
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Dendrophthoe pentandra methanolic leaf extract increases progesterone levels in female rats by Lazuardi Mochamad, Bambang Hermanto

“…Methods Fourteen Rattus norvegicus Wistar strain female rats were divided into an intervention group and a control group, and synchronized to estrus via the pheromone synchronizing method. The intervention group was given daily single intramuscular injections of crude methanolic Dendrophthoe pentandra leaf extract at 100 mg/kgBW for 4 days, while the control group was given daily single intramuscular injections of 1 mL of distilled water. …”
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Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae kap108Δ Mutants upon Addition of Oxidative Stress by Kenneth D. Belanger, Nathaniel Larson, Jonathan Kahn, Dmitry Tkachev, Ahmet Ay

“…Gene ontology analysis reveals that, among the genes whose expression is reduced in the absence of Kap108 are those involved in stress response and intracellular transport, while those overexpressed are largely involved in mating and pheromone response. We also identified 25 clusters of genes that undergo similar patterns of change in gene expression when oxidative stresses are added and subsequently removed, including genes involved in stress response, oxidation–reduction processing, iron homeostasis, ascospore wall assembly, transmembrane transport, and cell fusion during mating. …”
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HiCoACR: A reconfiguration decision-making model for reconfigurable security protocol based on hierarchically collaborative ant colony by Zhuo Yi, Ying Liao, Xuehui Du, Xin Lu, Lifeng Cao

“…Both the Explorer and the Worker adopt a modified version of ant colony algorithm to fulfill its targets, where a hierarchical pheromone is defined to reinforce positive behaviors of each ant colony. …”
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Characterization of Antennal Sensilla and Immunolocalization of Odorant-Binding Proteins on Spotted Alfalfa Aphid, Therioaphis trifolii (Monell) by Limei Song, Xuemin Wang, Yanqi Liu, Yinpeng Sun, Liping Ban

“…In addition, OBP6, OBP7, and OBP8 were densely labeled in stellate sensilla, suggesting OBP6, OBP7, and OBP8 may sense alarm pheromone germacrene A in T. trifolii.…”
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Bacterial Associates of a Gregarious Riparian Beetle With Explosive Defensive Chemistry by Reilly McManus, Reilly McManus, Alison Ravenscraft, Alison Ravenscraft, Wendy Moore

“…Enterococcus has been implicated in the production of fecal aggregation pheromone components, which have been shown to regulate aggregation in the German cockroach; it is possible that Enterococcus plays a similar role in Brachinus. …”
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Inhibition of competence development, horizontal gene transfer and virulence in Streptococcus pneumoniae by a modified competence stimulating peptide. by Luchang Zhu, Gee W Lau

“…Competence stimulating peptide (CSP) is a 17-amino acid peptide pheromone secreted by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Upon binding of CSP to its membrane-associated receptor kinase ComD, a cascade of signaling events is initiated, leading to activation of the competence regulon by the response regulator ComE. …”
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Male Psyllids Differentially Learn in the Context of Copulation by Dara G. Stockton, Xavier Martini, Lukasz L. Stelinski

“…In the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, stimulatory cuticular hydrocarbons act as sex pheromone attractants. Male psyllids locate aggregations of females using those olfactory cues, as well as vibrational communication on the plant surface. …”
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