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ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2014

Vertebrate pheromones and other semiochemicals: the potential for accommodating complexity in signalling by volatile compounds for vertebrate management.

John A Pickett, Stephen Barasa, Michael A Birkett

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Review in Biochemical Society transactions, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Urinary VOCs as biomarkers of early stage lung tumour development in mice.Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers · 2024
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  2. Review
  3. An evolutionary conserved olfactory receptor for foodborne and semiochemical alkylpyrazines.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2021
    Article
  4. Characterizing human odorant signals: insights from insect semiochemistry andPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
    Review
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John A Pickett*Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, U.K.
Stephen Barasa*Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, U.K.
Michael A Birkett*Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, U.K.
Rothamsted Research · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H009493/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J001821/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J008508/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/K006363/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interaction between volatile and non-volatile, e.g. proteinaceous, components of pheromone and other semiochemical-based signalling systems presents a daunting set of problems for exploitation in the management of vertebrates, good or bad. Aggravating this is the complexity of the mixtures involved with pheromones, not only by definition associated with each species, but also with individual members of that species and their positions within their immediate communities. Nonetheless, already in some contexts, particularly where signals are perceived at other trophic levels from those of the vertebrates, e.g. by arthropods, reductionist approaches can be applied whereby the integrity of complex volatile mixtures is maintained, but perturbed by augmentation with individual components. In the present article, this is illustrated for cattle husbandry, fish farming and human health. So far, crude formulations have been used to imitate volatile semiochemical interactions with non-volatile components, but new approaches must be developed to accommodate more sophisticated interactions and not least the activities of the non-volatile, particularly proteinaceous components, currently being deduced.

Indexed as

AnimalsCattleHumansPheromonesSignal TransductionVertebratesVolatile Organic CompoundsPheromonesVolatile Organic Compounds

Identifiers

PMID25109967
PMCPMC4128645
OpenAlexW1964661442

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