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Volatile Sex Pheromone Extraction and Chemoattraction Assay in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Chemical signalling: laser on the fly reveals a new male-specific pheromone
Joel D Levine1, Jocelyn G Millar
1Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada. joel.levine@utoronto.ca
Current Biology : CB
|August 14, 2009
Abstract:
A study using laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry has identified new oxygenated compounds in cuticular lipids of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster; one such compound, when transferred to females during mating, renders the females unattractive to males for days.

