ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
A pheromone antagonist liberates female sea lamprey from a sensory trap to enable reliable communication.
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- Structural analogs modulate olfactory and behavioral responses to a bile acid sex pheromone in sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2025Article
- Behavioral, Endocrine, and Neuronal Responses to Odors in Lampreys.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Male sea lamprey countersignal relative to their baseline pheromone but not the intensity of rivals' signals.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Synergistic behavioral antagonists of a sex pheromone reduce reproduction of invasive sea lamprey.iScience · 2023Article
- Pheromone Perception in Fish: Mechanisms and Modulation by Internal Status.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Pedigree analysis and estimates of effective breeding size characterize sea lamprey reproductive biology.Evolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Attenuation and recovery of an avoidance response to a chemical antipredator cue in an invasive fish: implications for use as a repellent in conservation.Conservation physiology · 2022Article
- Sensory trap leads to reliable communication without a shift in nonsexual responses to the model cue.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The evolution of male signals and female preferences remains a central question in the study of animal communication. The sensory trap model suggests males evolve signals that mimic cues used in nonsexual contexts and thus manipulate female behavior to generate mating opportunities. Much evidence supports the sensory trap model, but how females glean reliable information from both mimetic signals and their model cues remains unknown. We discovered a mechanism whereby a manipulative male signal guides reliable communication in sea lamprey (
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