ReviewEMBO reports2013
The joy of sex pheromones.
Review in EMBO reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- Structural basis of sex pheromone detection in aphids.Cell research · 2026Article
- Efficient pheromone navigation via antagonistic detectors in Caenorhabditis elegans male.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Cyclohexyl acetate functions like a volatile sex pheromone mimic in Caenorhabditis nematodes.BMC biology · 2026Article
- A covalent recognition strategy enables conspecific mate identification.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Female semiochemicals stimulate male courtship but dampen female sexual receptivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Pheromone Perception in Fish: Mechanisms and Modulation by Internal Status.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Nematode Pheromones: Structures and Functions.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Impact of starvation on paternal reproductive investment in Neoseiulus californicus.Experimental & applied acarology · 2022Article
- Toward an understanding of the chemical ecology of alternative reproductive tactics in the bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus robini).BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Juvenile Experience with Male Cues Triggers Cryptic Choice Mechanisms in Adult Female Redback Spiders.Insects · 2021Article
- Open-source computational simulation of moth-inspired navigation algorithm: A benchmark framework.MethodsX · 2021Article
- Early-exposure to new sex pheromone blends alters mate preference in female butterflies and in their offspring.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Spermine in semen of male sea lamprey acts as a sex pheromone.PLoS biology · 2019Article
- Is It Possible to Predict the Odor of a Molecule on the Basis of its Structure?International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- SRD-1 in AWA neurons is the receptor for female volatile sex pheromones inEMBO reports · 2019Article
- Sex-specific pheromone responses inEMBO reports · 2019Article
- Chemical Cues that Guide Female Reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Review
- A breath of information: the volatilome.Current genetics · 2018Article
- Genome-based identification and analysis of ionotropic receptors in Spodoptera litura.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2018Article
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Abstract
Sex pheromones provide an important means of communication to unite individuals for successful reproduction. Although sex pheromones are highly diverse across animals, these signals fulfil common fundamental roles in enabling identification of a mating partner of the opposite sex, the appropriate species and of optimal fecundity. In this review, we synthesize both classic and recent investigations on sex pheromones in a range of species, spanning nematode worms, insects and mammals. These studies reveal comparable strategies in how these chemical signals are produced, detected and processed in the brain to regulate sexual behaviours. Elucidation of sex pheromone communication mechanisms both defines outstanding models to understand the molecular and neuronal basis of chemosensory behaviours, and reveals how similar evolutionary selection pressures yield convergent solutions in distinct animal nervous systems.
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