Gene expression profiles in testis of pigs with extreme high and low levels of androstenone by Bendixen Christian, Lien Sigbjørn, Meuwissen Theo, Moe Maren, Wang Xuefei, Conley Lene, Berget Ingunn, Tajet Håvard, Grindflek Eli

“…One of the main compounds causing this taint is androstenone, a pheromone produced in porcine testis. Here we use microarrays to study the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously in testis of high and low androstenone boars. …”
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Environment-induced same-sex mating in the yeast Candida albicans through the Hsf1-Hsp90 pathway. by Guobo Guan, Li Tao, Huizhen Yue, Weihong Liang, Jiao Gong, Jian Bing, Qiushi Zheng, Amanda O Veri, Shuru Fan, Nicole Robbins, Leah E Cowen, Guanghua Huang

“…We further demonstrate that Candida TransActivating protein 4 (Cta4) and Cell Wall Transcription factor 1 (Cwt1), downstream effectors of the Hsf1-Hsp90 pathway, regulate same-sex mating in C. albicans through the transcriptional control of the master regulator of a-type mating, MTLa2, and the pheromone precursor-encoding gene Mating α factor precursor (MFα). …”
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Transcription factor regulatory modules provide the molecular mechanisms for functional redundancy observed among transcription factors in yeast by Tzu-Hsien Yang

“…Finally, the biological applicability of the proposed method was shown in one detailed example of a verified TF regulatory module for pheromone response and filamentous growth in yeast. …”
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Can an Enrichment Programme with Novel Manipulative and Scent Stimuli Change the Behaviour of Zoo-Housed European Wildcats? A Case Study by Valentina Bertoni, Barbara Regaiolli, Alessandro Cozzi, Stefano Vaglio, Caterina Spiezio

“…Domestic cats release Fraction 3 of Facial Pheromone (F3) by rubbing the muzzle to convey relational and territorial information. …”
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Pest categorisation of Xylotrechus chinensis by EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Jean‐Claude Gregoire, Chris Malumphy, Virag Kertesz, Andrea Maiorano, Alan MacLeod

“…The females respond to a male sex pheromone, which has not been developed into a detection method. …”
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Study of pesticide use on bitter gourd production at Jashore district by P Hajong, MS Rahman, MA Islam, GC Biswas

“…Thirty-nine percent farmers used pheromone trap for crop protection. A farmer averagely used 11.19 times spray in their fields and its range was 5-18 times in a season. …”
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Molecular characterization of Smtdc-1 and Smddc-1 discloses roles as male-competence factors for the sexual maturation of Schistosoma mansoni females by Xuesong Li, Oliver Weth, Simone Haeberlein, Christoph G. Grevelding

“…Although this phenomenon is long known, only recently a first peptide-based pheromone of males was identified that contributes to the control of female sexual development. …”
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ACTS: An Ant Colony Based Transmission Scheduling Approach for Cloud Network Collaboration Environment by Ruiying Cheng, Pan Zhang, Lei Xie, Yongqi Ai, Peng Xu

“…Finally, we improve the pheromone update rule of the ant colony algorithm to avoid the algorithm from falling into a local optimum. …”
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Prezygotic and Postzygotic Control of Uniparental Mitochondrial DNA Inheritance in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Cryptococcus neoformans</named-content> by Rachana Gyawali, Xiaorong Lin

“…Mat2 is the key transcription factor that governs the pheromone sensing and response pathway, and it is critical for the early mating events that lead to cell fusion and zygote formation. …”
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Calumenin, a Ca²⁺ Binding Protein, Is Required for Dauer Formation in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> by Kyung Eun Lee, Jeong Hoon Cho, Hyun-Ok Song

“…Since the <i>calu-1</i>(<i>tm1783</i>) mutant exhibited abnormal cuticle structures such as highly deformed annuli and alae, we investigated whether CALU-1 is involved in dauer formation or not. Ascaroside pheromone (ascr#2) and crude daumone were used under starvation conditions to analyze the rate of dauer formation in the <i>calu-1(tm1783)</i> mutant. …”
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Abstract Topological Data Structure for 3D Spatial Objects by Uznir Ujang, Francesc Anton Castro, Suhaibah Azri

“…The main idea here is to store the atomic paths through the models as an ant experiences topology: each time the ant perceives a previous trace of pheromone, it knows it has completed a cycle. The main advantage of this combinatorial topological data structure over abstract simplicial complexes is that the storage size of the abstract cell cycles required to represent the geometric topology of a model is far lower than that for any of the existing topological data structures (including abstract simplicial cell cycles) required to represent the geometric decomposition of the same model into abstract simplicial cells. …”
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Invertebrate biosecurity challenges in high productivity grassland: the New Zealand example by Stephen Latham Goldson, Barbara Ingeborg Patricia Barratt, Karen Frances Armstrong

“…While there is no silver bullet, opportunities for improving pasture biosecurity may include increased and informed vigilance by farmers, pheromone traps and resistant plants to slow invasion. …”
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Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids by Oliver Kerry M, Noge Koji, Huang Emma M, Campos Jaime M, Becerra Judith X, Hunter Martha S

“…Finally, we identified differences in the quantity of the trans-β-farnesene, the major component of aphid alarm pheromone, between <it>H. defensa</it>-infected and uninfected aphids, which may form the basis for discrimination.…”
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Estimation of the population density of the sweetpotato weevils on the Mariana Islands by Gadi V.P. Reddy, James McConnel, Aleandro E. Badilles

“…Currently, no advice is provided to growers on the best method for sampling sweetpotato for weevil pests, although pheromone-based traps or chemicals are being used. …”
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The key mediators involved in myocardial endoplasmic reticulum stress induced by ischaemia reperfusion injury in rats by Jiayue Qing, Hongmei Zhou, Li Hu, Zhipeng Zhu

“…The upregulated and downregulated genes were primarily involved in the “positive regulation of cytokine production”, “regulation of inflammatory response” and “response to pheromone” biological processes. Most of them were mainly correlated with the MAPK, Ras and calcium signalling pathways. …”
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The ram effect: New insights into neural modulation of the gonadotropic axis by male odors and socio-sexual interactions. by CLAUDE eFABRE NYS, Keith Maurice Kendrick, Rex John Scaramuzzi

“…The first step in the ram effect is increased LH pulsatile secretion in anestrus ewes exposed to a sexually active male or only to its fleece, the latter finding indicating a pheromone-like effect. Estradiol secretion increases in all ewes and this eventually induces a LH surge and ovulation, just as during the breeding season. …”
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Comparative Analysis Highlights Variable Genome Content of Wheat Rusts and Divergence of the Mating Loci by Christina A. Cuomo, Guus Bakkeren, Hala Badr Khalil, Vinay Panwar, David Joly, Rob Linning, Sharadha Sakthikumar, Xiao Song, Xian Adiconis, Lin Fan, Jonathan M. Goldberg, Joshua Z. Levin, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Yehoshua Anikster, Myron Bruce, Meinan Wang, Chuntao Yin, Brent McCallum, Les J. Szabo, Scot Hulbert, Xianming Chen, John P. Fellers

“…Two allelic homeodomain pairs, HD1 and HD2, were identified in each dikaryotic Puccinia species along with three pheromone receptor (STE3) mating-type genes, two of which are likely representing allelic specificities. …”
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A constraint optimization framework for discovery of cellular signaling and regulatory networks by Huang, Shao-shan Carol

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A study of multi-agent reinforcement learning with swarm intelligence by Chen, Caishun

“…Particularly, the current research proposed two SI-inspired multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches, namely flocking-based cooperative learning MAS and pheromone-guided ant colony TD-FALCON network. The effectiveness of these approaches are shown in the context of pursuit game and resource gathering problems.…”
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Diverse spatial, temporal, and sexual expression of recently duplicated androgen-binding protein genes in Mus musculus by Laukaitis, C, Dlouhy, S, Emes, R, Ponting, C, Karn, R

“…The extensive diversification in expression of this family of proteins provides two lines of evidence for a pheromonal role for ABP: 1) different patterns of Abpa/Abpbg expression in different glands; and 2) sexual dimorphism in the expression of the paralogues in a subset of those glands. …”