Pheromones
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Ants have it! Dogs use it to attract their mate and defend their territory. It is what drives the male moth situated miles away from the female moth to reciprocate and respond to the mating invitation. It is what makes you instantaneously get attracted to the woman or man of your dreams. Still seems fishy? 'It' is nothing other than the wonder chemical, pheromones, at work. Someone rightly said that 'love is a matter of chemistry'. We now know that this is indeed true.

The study of pheromones represents one of the most fascinating areas of reproductive biology. The term pheromone is used to refer to any chemical substance produced by a living organism, that triggers a change in the sexual behavior of another organism, of the same species, but of the opposite sex.

Latest Publication and Research on Pheromones - Updated on 12/06/2011

Binding properties of pheromone-binding protein 1 from the common cutworm Spodoptera litura. - Published by PubMed

[Quorum sensing in class II bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacteria and its application--a review]. - Published by PubMed

Methods for Evaluating the Caenorhabditis elegans Dauer State: Standard Dauer-Formation Assay Using Synthetic Daumones and Proteomic Analysis of O-GlcNAc Modifications. - Published by PubMed

Expression of a desaturase gene, desat1, in neural and nonneural tissues separately affects perception and emission of sex pheromones in Drosophila. - Published by PubMed

Multiplex quantification of lamprey specific bile acid derivatives in environmental water using UHPLC-MS/MS. - Published by PubMed

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Posted by: guest Posted on: 08/02/2008

i totally agree ... you should also check out this german site about the best pheromones tested -

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