A team of researchers from Sweden, China and the U.S. has developed a much cheaper way to produce pheromones as a crop pest repellent. In their paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the group describes how ...
UC Riverside scientists are on the hunt for a chemical that disrupts "evil" weevils' mating and could prevent them from destroying California's supply of avocados.
Ecology
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Male pheromones just might be the fountain of youth for aging female animals' eggs, according to a new Northwestern University study.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2022
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Whi3 is a mnemon (Whi3mnem), or in other words, a protein that stores information in individual cells by forming stable super-assemblies. This memory state is then inherited by only one individual daughter cell at mitosis ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 16, 2022
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The world's largest hornet has been the focus of extensive news coverage of late due to its menacing appearance and expanding footprint in North America.
Ecology
Mar 14, 2022
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A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) has developed genetically modified plants that ...
Evolution
Nov 17, 2021
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Pheromones are potent molecules that mediate communications between animals and even between humans. Usually, a sender animal synthesizes and excretes pheromones to the environment; pheromones are detected by a receiver animal ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2021
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Microscopic roundworms may hold the key to understanding what is happening in the brain when the instinct of an animal changes in order to survive. In a newly published paper in the journal Current Biology, University of ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 25, 2021
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Sea lampreys are a destructive invasive species that has threatened native fisheries in the Great Lakes for decades. Multiple teams of Michigan State University researchers are finding ways to harness sea lampreys' natural ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2021
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It's not the look in her compound eyes or the shape of her carapace that really attracts the male cockroach to his mate. Instead, it's all those 29-carbon hydrocarbons in her cuticle that drive him wild. How the female cockroach ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2021
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