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If you choose to follow any links to the abstracts and/or complete text of articles, books, and documents listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Other Items of Note: Rebecca W. Alexander A Chiral Attraction. (... the gypsy moth Lymantria dispar is a persistent pest in Europe, Asia and North America, causing major deforestation as a result of outbreaks approximately every ten years. Every spring during the gypsy moth's mating period, stationary female moths attract male moths up to 1 kilometer away by releasing into the wind a sex pheromone [a chemical attractant]. The author discusses a study by Erika Plettner, et al. from which it may be possible to identify substances that mimic the effect of the sex pheromone used by female gypsy moths. The successful use of such pheromone mimics might conceivably limit the reproduction of the gypsy moth thereby controlling the size of its population and, thus, potentially reducing it harmful effects on forests. Other keywords and phrases -- antennae, disparlure, enantiomer, invasive species, ligand, olfactory neurons, PBP, pheromone-binding proteins, pheromone binding is reversible, sensilla trichodea, tree -- from the text of the article; for the scientific information described by this article, please see the article: Erika Plettner, Josef Lazar, Erin G. Prestwich, and Glenn D. Prestwich Discrimination of Pheromone Enantiomers by Two Pheromone Binding Proteins from the Gypsy Moth Lymantria dispar. Biochemistry Volume 39, Number 30 (August 1, 2000): 8953-8962) Trends in Biochemical Sciences Volume 25, Number 9 (September 2000): 427. How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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