Sentences with phrase «identified sex pheromones»
NC State entomologist Coby Schal and NC State and University of Amsterdam colleagues wanted to learn more about the sexual signaling efforts used by moths, a diverse group of insects with well - identified sex pheromones.
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Simon Fraser University scientists have developed a new way to exterminate rats by identifying and synthetically replicating the male brown rat's sex pheromone.
Ever since a pheromone secreted by a female moth that attracts the opposite sex was identified in 1959, scientists have pinned down numerous chemicals that affect behavior in a wide variety of animal species, from insects to mammals to humans.
«From our perspective as chemists, we were almost disappointed that a molecule which conveys something important as sex has such a simple structure,» says Aleš Svatoš, who performed the chemical analyses to identify the pheromone.