Morphological Continua Make Poor Species: Genus-Wide Morphometric Survey of the European Bee Orchids (<i>Ophrys</i> L.) by Richard M. Bateman, Paula J. Rudall

“…We critique our preferred morphometric approach of accumulating heterogeneous data and analysing them primarily using principal coordinates, noting that our conclusions would have been strengthened by even greater sampling and the inclusion of data describing pseudo-pheromone cocktails. Morphological variation within <i>Ophrys</i> proved to be exceptionally multidimensional, lacking strong directional trends. …”
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Synthetic and Natural Insecticides: Gas, Liquid, Gel and Solid Formulations for Stored-Product and Food-Industry Pest Control by Vaclav Stejskal, Tomas Vendl, Radek Aulicky, Christos Athanassiou

“…Many emerging technologies can be found in the form of impregnated protective packaging (insect growth regulators/disruptors (IGRs/IGDs), natural repellents), pheromone-based attracticides, electrostatic dust or sprays, nanoparticles, edible artificial sweeteners, hydrogels, inert baits with synthetic attractants, biodegradable encapsulations of active ingredients, and cyanogenic protective grain coatings. …”
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Effect of antibiotic treatment and gamma-irradiation on cuticular hydrocarbon profiles and mate choice in tsetse flies (Glossina m. morsitans) by Tobias Engl, Veronika Michalkova, Brian L. Weiss, Güler D. Uzel, Peter Takac, Wolfgang J. Miller, Adly M. M. Abd-Alla, Serap Aksoy, Martin Kaltenpoth

“…Importantly, tetracycline treatment reduced relative amounts of 15,19,23-trimethyl-heptatriacontane, a known compound of the female contact sex pheromone, in two of the three experiments, suggesting a possible implication of microbiota disturbance on mate choice decisions. …”
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Hungry for Sex: Differential Roles for <i>Ustilago maydis</i><i>b</i> Locus Components in Haploid Cells vis à vis Nutritional Availability by R. Margaret Wallen, Kirsten Richardson, Madison Furnish, Hector Mendoza, Allison Dentinger, Sunita Khanal, Michael H. Perlin

“…The components of mating-type loci provide initial self/non-self-recognition through pheromone and receptor interactions that control early cell fusion events. …”
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An Overview of Algorithms for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems in the Quantum-Classical Cloud by Leonid Hulianitskyi, Vyacheslav Korolyov, Oleksandr Khodzinskyi

“…For example, neural networks that calculate weighting factors using QC or an ant algorithm that calculates a pheromone trail in a hybrid cloud. It should be mentioned the quantum-inspired algorithms, which are based on software tools for the simulation of QC and the corresponding libraries and allow creating an effective class of algorithms for solving problems of vehicle routing. …”
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Antennal transcriptome analysis of olfactory genes and tissue expression profiling of odorant binding proteins in Semanotus bifasciatus (cerambycidae: coleoptera) by Han Li, Enhua Hao, Yini Li, Huan Yang, Piao Sun, Pengfei Lu, Haili Qiao

“…The majority of OBPs were antenna-biased expressed, which are involved in odor recognition, sex pheromone detection, and/or host plant volatile detection. …”
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التغيرات الموسمية لعثة الزيتون Bern Prays oleae للجيلين الزهري والورقي والمتطفلات المرافقة لها في محافظة ادلب- سورية... by حسين حلاق, يوسف عبد الله

“…The number of olive moth in pheromone traps was low in 2008 for the two generations Anthophagous & Phyllophagous, whereas it was in Kafertakareem (90 & 89 insect/trap) respectively, and in Janodea (70 & 77 insect/trap) respectively. …”
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Effectiveness of Bioactive Compound as Antibacterial and Anti-Quorum Sensing Agent from <i>Myrmecodia pendans</i>: An In Silico Study by Mieke Hemiawati Satari, Eti Apriyanti, Hendra Dian Adhita Dharsono, Denny Nurdin, Meirina Gartika, Dikdik Kurnia

“…Those proteins are penicillin-binding protein (PBP), MurB, Sortase A (SrtA), deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) gyrase, ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymerase, ribosomal protein, Cytolysin M (ClyM), FsrB, gelatinase binding-activating pheromone (GBAP), and PgrX retrieved from UniProt. …”
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التغيرات الموسمية لعثة الزيتون Bern Prays oleae للجيلين الزهري والورقي والمتطفلات المرافقة لها في محافظة ادلب- سورية... by حسين حلاق, يوسف عبد الله

“…The number of olive moth in pheromone traps was low in 2008 for the two generations Anthophagous & Phyllophagous, whereas it was in Kafertakareem (90 & 89 insect/trap) respectively, and in Janodea (70 & 77 insect/trap) respectively. …”
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Flutuação populacional e danos de Grapholita molesta (Lepidoptera: tortricidae) em dois sistemas de produção de pessegueiros Population fluctuation and damage from Grapholita moles... by Alex Sandro Poltronieri, Lino Bittencourt Monteiro, Louise Larissa May-de-Mio

“…To verify the fluctuation, two Delta model traps were installed per orchard, baited with synthetic sexual pheromone, where the capture of G. molesta adults was recorded weekly. …”
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<named-content content-type="genus-species">Enterococcus faecalis</named-content> CRISPR-Cas Is a Robust Barrier to Conjugative Antibiotic Resistance Dissemination in the Murine In... by Valerie J. Price, Sara W. McBride, Karthik Hullahalli, Anushila Chatterjee, Breck A. Duerkop, Kelli L. Palmer

“…Enterococcus faecalis is a native colonizer of the mammalian intestine and harbors pheromone-responsive plasmids (PRPs). PRPs mediate inter- and intraspecies transfer of antibiotic resistance genes. …”
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Export of Rgg Quorum Sensing Peptides is Mediated by the PptAB ABC Transporter in <i>Streptococcus Thermophilus</i> Strain LMD-9 by Abarna Lingeswaran, Coralie Metton, Céline Henry, Véronique Monnet, Vincent Juillard, Rozenn Gardan

“…To date, in <i>Streptococcus thermophilus</i>, peptide secretion, maturation, and extracellular fate have received little attention, even though this species has several (at least five) genes encoding Rgg regulators and one encoding a ComR regulator. We studied pheromone export in this species, focusing our attention on PptAB, which is an exporter of signaling peptides previously identified in <i>Enterococcus faecalis</i>, pathogenic streptococci and <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>. …”
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RNA-Mediated Reciprocal Regulation between Two Bacterial Operons Is RNase III Dependent by Christopher M. Johnson, Heather H. A. Haemig, Anushree Chatterjee, Hu Wei-Shou, Keith E. Weaver, Gary M. Dunny

“…Control of conjugation of pCF10, a pheromone response plasmid of Enterococcus faecalis, is a well-characterized system that serves as a model for the regulation of gene expression in bacteria by intercellular signaling. …”
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Characterization of the Competitive Pneumocin Peptides of Streptococcus pneumoniae by Wei-Yun Wholey, Maha Abu-Khdeir, Emily A. Yu, Saher Siddiqui, Ogenna Esimai, Suzanne Dawid, Suzanne Dawid

“…To examine the role of the predicted pneumocin peptides in competition, 454 isolates were screened for competence independent blp pheromone secretion using plate assays. Active strains were characterized for inhibition, BIR content, BlpC pherotype and serotype. …”
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Farmers’ Criteria for Pesticide Selection and Use in the Pest Control Process by Mohammad Sharif Sharifzadeh, Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh, Christos A. Damalas, Rohollah Rezaei

“…Farmers who believed in the effectiveness of alternatives to chemical pest control (e.g., use of biological control, pheromone traps, or cultural control) preferred performance and effectiveness criteria less than farmers who believed no effectiveness or slight effectiveness of alternatives to chemical pest control. …”
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<named-content content-type="genus-species">Candida albicans</named-content> Double Mutants Lacking both <italic toggle="yes">EFG1</italic> and <italic toggle="yes">WOR1</italic> C... by Yang-Nim Park, Claude Pujol, Deborah J. Wessels, David R. Soll

“…Opaque cells of double mutants (efg1−/− wor1−/−) are enlarged and elongate, form an enlarged vacuole, upregulate mCherry under the control of an opaque-specific promoter, form opaque cell wall pimples, express the opaque phenotype in lower GI colonization, and, if MTL homozygous, form conjugation tubes in response to pheromone and mate. These results can be explained if the basic and simplified model is expanded to include a WOR1-independent alternative opaque pathway repressed by EFG1. …”
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Transcriptomic response of female adult moths to host and non-host plants in two closely related species by M. Orsucci, P. Audiot, S. Nidelet, F. Dorkeld, A. Pommier, M. Vabre, D. Severac, M. Rohmer, B. Gschloessl, R. Streiff

“…Until now, most of the olfactory receptors described in Ostrinia spp. had been tested for their putative role in pheromone recognition by males. Here we observed that one specific olfactory receptor was clearly associated with ECB’s discrimination between maize and mugwort conditions, highlighting a potential new candidate involved in plant odor discrimination in adult females. …”
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A Cognitive Electronic Jamming Decision-Making Method Based on <i>Q-Learning</i> and Ant Colony Fusion Algorithm by Chudi Zhang, Yunqi Song, Rundong Jiang, Jun Hu, Shiyou Xu

“…Then, an improved <i>Q-Learning</i> algorithm is proposed to address the shortcomings of both algorithms. By introducing the pheromone mechanism of ant colony algorithms in <i>Q-Learning</i> and using the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>ε</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-greedy algorithm to balance the contradictory relationship between exploration and exploitation, the algorithm greatly avoids falling into a local optimum, thus accelerating the convergence speed of the algorithm with good stability and robustness in the convergence process. …”
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Exploring the Anti-quorum Sensing and Antibiofilm Efficacy of Phytol against Serratia marcescens Associated Acute Pyelonephritis Infection in Wistar Rats by Ramanathan Srinivasan, Ramar Mohankumar, Arunachalam Kannappan, Veeramani Karthick Raja, Govindaraju Archunan, Shunmugiah Karutha Pandian, Kandasamy Ruckmani, Arumugam Veera Ravi

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Flutuação populacional de Rhynchophorus palmarum (L.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) em palmeiras oleíferas no Amazonas Population dynamic Rhynchophorus palmarum (L.) (Coleoptera: Cur... by Alex Queiroz Cysne, Bruno Araújo Cruz, Raimundo Nonato Vieira da Cunha, Raimundo Nonato Carvalho da Rocha

“…For capturing insects, baited traps containing pieces of sugarcane stalk and aggregation pheromone were distributed around the plantation, in the Experimental Station of Rio Urubu, Rio Preto da Eva, AM, Brazil. …”
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