BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bombykol, Sexual Addiction, Bombyx Mori

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Substance produced by an organism that elicits a specific unlearned response in another member of the same species. Bombykol; males are very sensitive to it, how he tracks down the female. When male responds, antennae open up, gives male specific left/right up/down orientation to find where its coming from. Bind to receptor molecules in this case (antennae of moth) Produces biological response (in this case; male being attracted to female) Investigated in 1970s as possible method; create a trap-attract insects; and get stuck. Hasn"t worked out, these things wont do enough to protect a field of crops or anything. Only use it when they know the bugs are there. Used it as way to tract soviet spies during cold war. Touch them with it, cia would tract by following cockroaches around. Some species with use a pheromone of another species to manipulate them.