Metathesis & Peach Twig Borer Pheromone (All Things Metathesis)

Insects find each other to mate by sense of smell, and their chemical signaling pheromones. Adding pheromones to a field can be used as an alternative to pesticides by confusing male insects and preventing mating. While this practice holds promise as an environmentally…

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Elephant Sex

Elephant sex is quite surprising, not because of the sheer bulk of the beasts involved and the forces they employ, but because of the rather circuitous route taken by the sex pheromones exuded by the female.
Josef Lazar of Columbia University, New York, and chemist Elizabeth “Bets” Rasmussen of Oregon Health and Sciences University in Beaverton [...]

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