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Parasitol Today

Title:		Sex attractants in nematodes
Author(s):		Mackinnon BM;
Address:		"Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada E3B 6EI"
Journal Title:		Parasitol Today
Year:		1987
Volume:		3
Issue:		5
Page Number:		156 - 158
DOI:		10.1016/0169-4758(87)90201-8
ISSN/ISBN:		0169-4758 (Print) 0169-4758 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Nematodes communicate with each other using pheromones - chemicals secreted by one individual that affect the behaviour of others of the same species. Chemicals secreted into the environment are known to influence host location, dormancy (dauer-larva formation), competitive interactions and mate detection; they benefit the nematode by reducing energy expenditure on less orientated movements. Of these chemicals, sex pheromones associated with mate detection and attraction are of particular interest as potential biological control agents. Here, Barbara MacKinnon discusses these developments"
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Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEMackinnon, B M eng England 1987/01/01 Parasitol Today. 1987 May; 3(5):156-8. doi: 10.1016/0169-4758(87)90201-8"