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Acids are reactive, with even weak acids like vinegar interacting with other materials to wow students.
Acids are reactive, with even weak acids like vinegar interacting with other materials to wow students.
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Dec 21, 2017
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Vinegar odor boosts the perception of a male sex pheromone in the brain of unmated female Drosophila melanogaster flies, as a team of scientists from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology has now discovered. The researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2017
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Markus Knaden and Bill Hansson, and their colleagues at the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, study ecologically relevant odors in the natural environment of insects, especially vinegar flies. In this new study they ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2017
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Like many other insects, vinegar flies produce pheromones to call their conspecifics to an interesting food source. A research team of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, demonstrated in a new ...
Ecology
Sep 15, 2016
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An international team of scientists led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researcher Joanne Yew may have discovered a new and effective way to control insect pests that are a threat to agriculture and humans. Yew and her ...
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2016
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Vinegar is the perfect ingredient for making tangy sauces and dressings. Now, researchers report in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that the popular liquid could also help fight ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory ...
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Feb 10, 2016
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Female Drosophila flies avoid laying eggs at sites that smell of parasitic wasps.
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2015
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James Cook University scientists in Australia have made a breakthrough in the war against a deadly enemy of the Great Barrier Reef.
Ecology
Sep 22, 2015
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A group of researchers from the U.S. and Australia have announced the completely unexpected discovery of exotic "vinegar flies" (drosophilids) in urban Los Angeles in a paper appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, titled "Strange ...
Plants & Animals
May 7, 2015
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A group of researchers of the University of Barcelona (UB) have described a key interaction to understanding growth control in the vinegar fly (Drosophila melanogaster). According to the study, published in the journal of ...
Biotechnology
Feb 20, 2015
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