ENVS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bioassay, Reproductive Isolation, Unit
18 Oct 2017
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Understand how chemical and physical properties of a pheromone effect its ecological role. Differentiate between primer and releaser effects of pheromones. Differentiate among the major function types of insect pheromones. Explain the ecological functions of the major types of insect pheromones. Understand some of the steps that scientists go through when determining the presence, identity, and role of an insect pheromone. Explain how pheromones can keep closely related species reproductively isolated from each other (wyatt, 2009) fifty years of pheromones. Peter karlson and martin luscher proposed the use of the word pheromones, to define the chemical communication used between animals of the same species. Pheromone comes from the greek words pherein (to transfer) and hormon (to excite). Microarray genomics are able to show genes switching on and off in the brain of the honeybee in response to pheromones. Correct synthesis of pheromone molecules is harder than identifying them. (wyatt, 2003) discovering pheromones.
