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Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

...cies: one type communicates with the so-called "E" pheromone while the other communicates with the "Z" pheromon...rforming crosses and backcrosses between different pheromone races of this moth, they obtained groups of individuals sharing the same pheromone type but differin...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

...'s vomeronasal organ, a sense organ thought to aid pheromone detection in some mammals. Although humans have receptors similar to those found in mice, the researchers are not sure whether pheromones trigger neuron formation in humans or not. They say that it is still a matter of speculation whether a subcon...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

...pe to study how yeast cells responded to differing pheromone levels with and without Kss1 present. They discove..., it helped cells diversify their responses at low pheromone concentrations, so that only a small fraction of cells might engage in 'expensive' mating behaviour,...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...ice males as potential mates. 'The general term pheromone is often linked to images of specific, rapid respo...fect female reproductive hormone secretion (primer pheromone effect) and mood (modulator pheromone effect). But Wysocki notes, 'Because human responses to phe...

The Chemistry Of Sexual Attraction Between Male And Female Elephants

... perfect molecular mixture present in male-emitted pheromone // in musth (an annual period of sexual activity a...ures are mirror images of each other. Frontalin, a pheromone discharged during musth by male Asian elephants from a temporal gland located between the eye and ea...

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