2023

Multiple pathways to herbivory underpinned deep divergences in ornithischian evolution

Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under naturalistic conditions

Long-distance turgor pressure changes induce local activation of plant glutamate receptor-like channels

Function of environment-derived male perfumes in orchid bees

A mosaic of endogenous and plant-derived courtship signals in moths

Extending the reach of homology by using successive computational filters to find yeast pheromone genes

Immature leaves are the dominant volatile-sensing organs of maize

Cross-generation pheromonal communication drives Drosophila oviposition site choice

Volatile-mediated plant-plant communication and higher-level ecological dynamics

Tissue-specific regulation of volatile emissions moves predators from flowers to attacked leaves

Sex-dependent control of pheromones on social organization within groups of wild house mice

2022

Brain-wide bidirectional neuropeptide modulation of individual neuron classes regulates a developmental decision

Interneuron control of C. elegans developmental decision-making

Identification of giant hornet Vespa mandarinia queen sex pheromone components

Evidence for the recruitment of florivorous plant bugs as pollinators

Macroevolutionary trends in theropod dinosaur feeding mechanics

Molecular basis of (E)-beta-farnesene-mediated aphid location in the predator Eupeodes corollae

Environmental strigolactone drives early growth responses to neighboring plants and soil volume in pea

Prostaglandin E(2) synchronizes lunar-regulated beach spawning in grass puffers

Whi3 mnemon association with endoplasmic reticulum membranes confines the memory of deceptive courtship to the yeast mother cell

2021

Bumble bees show an induced preference for flowers when primed with caffeinated nectar and a target floral odor

Food Reward Chemistry Explains a Novel Pollinator Shift and Vestigialization of Long Floral Spurs in an Orchid

Evolutionary changes in an invasive plant support the defensive role of plant volatiles

Animal behaviour: Shifting attention in order to disperse

Evolution: Ant trail pheromones promote ant-aphid mutualisms

Neuronal perception of the social environment generates an inherited memory that controls the development and generation time of C. elegans

Sexual deception of a beetle pollinator through floral mimicry

Sex pheromones: Made with a little help from my (bacterial) friends

An unusual tricosatriene is crucial for male fungus gnat attraction and exploitation by sexually deceptive Pterostylis orchids

"Sex-specific, pdfr-1-dependent modulation of pheromone avoidance by food abundance enables flexibility in C. elegans foraging behavior"

A Semivolatile Floral Scent Marks the Shift to a Novel Pollination System in Bromeliads

Rectal bacteria produce sex pheromones in the male oriental fruit fly

A trail pheromone mediates the mutualism between ants and aphids

2020

Aphid Herbivory Drives Asymmetry in Carbon for Nutrient Exchange between Plants and an Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus

Ant Foragers Compensate for the Nutritional Deficiencies in the Colony

Lack of evidence for pheromones in lemurs

Learning of a Mimic Odor within Beehives Improves Pollination Service Efficiency in a Commercial Crop

Evidence for a male sex pheromone in a primate?

Egg-Surface Bacteria Are Indirectly Associated with Oviposition Aversion in Bactrocera dorsalis

Chemical Ecology: A New Royal Scent in a Small Insect Society

The Molecular Basis of Host Selection in a Crucifer-Specialized Moth

Odorant Receptor Inhibition Is Fundamental to Odor Encoding

Comparative Development of the Ant Chemosensory System

Key Male Glandular Odorants Attracting Female Ring-Tailed Lemurs

Macrocyclic Lactones Act as a Queen Pheromone in a Primitively Eusocial Sweat Bee

Response to Drea et al

Selecting for Altered Substrate Specificity Reveals the Evolutionary Flexibility of ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters

Population Density Modulates the Duration of Reproduction of C. elegans

Pheromones: Stink Fights in Lemurs

2019

"Developmental Timing: Honey, I Reprogrammed the Kids"

Coordinated Behavioral and Physiological Responses to a Social Signal Are Regulated by a Shared Neuronal Circuit

Dynamic Regulation of Adult-Specific Functions of the Nervous System by Signaling from the Reproductive System

Mating Suppresses Alarm Response in Zebrafish

Acacia Ants Respond to Plant-Borne Vibrations Caused by Mammalian Browsers

Insect Herbivory Selects for Volatile-Mediated Plant-Plant Communication

Bumble Bee Workers Give Up Sleep to Care for Offspring that Are Not Their Own

Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Detect Acidic Volatiles Found in Human Odor Using the IR8a Pathway

Social Contact Acts as Appetitive Reinforcement and Supports Associative Learning in Honeybees

Plant Biology: Evolution of Volatile-Mediated Plant-Plant Interactions

Pheromones and Nutritional Signals Regulate the Developmental Reliance on let-7 Family MicroRNAs in C. elegans

Social Context Enhances Hormonal Modulation of Pheromone Detection in Drosophila

Systemic Root-Shoot Signaling Drives Jasmonate-Based Root Defense against Nematodes

2018

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant

Neuroscience: An Olfactory Homunculus in the Insect Brain

Lingering Effects of Herbivory and Plant Defenses on Pollinators

Megaherbivores Modify Trophic Cascades Triggered by Fear of Predation in an African Savanna Ecosystem

Exaptation as a Mechanism for Functional Reinforcement of an Animal Pheromone System

Bacteria Use Collective Behavior to Generate Diverse Combat Strategies

African bush elephants respond to a honeybee alarm pheromone blend

Tissue-Specific cis-Regulatory Divergence Implicates eloF in Inhibiting Interspecies Mating in Drosophila

A Single-Neuron Chemosensory Switch Determines the Valence of a Sexually Dimorphic Sensory Behavior

Olfactory Landmark-Based Communication in Interacting Drosophila

Spatial Receptive Fields for Odor Localization

Rising pCO(2) in Freshwater Ecosystems Has the Potential to Negatively Affect Predator-Induced Defenses in Daphnia

2017

Counteracting Ascarosides Act through Distinct Neurons to Determine the Sexual Identity of C. elegans Pheromones

Exocrine Gland-Secreting Peptide 1 Is a Key Chemosensory Signal Responsible for the Bruce Effect in Mice

Early Pheromone Experience Modifies a Synaptic Activity to Influence Adult Pheromone Responses of C. elegans

Does pupal communication influence Wolbachia-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility?

Idiothetic Path Integration in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster

Behavioural Ecology: Spiders Play the Imitation Game

"Animal Communication: When I'm Calling You, Will You Answer Too?"

Complex Sexual Deception in an Orchid Is Achieved by Co-opting Two Independent Biosynthetic Pathways for Pollinator Attraction

Molecular Basis of Alarm Pheromone Detection in Aphids

A Pheromone Antagonist Regulates Optimal Mating Time in the Moth Helicoverpa armigera

Response to 'Does pupal communication influence Wolbachia-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility?'

Plant Defense: Timing Is Everything

Olfactory Imprinting: A Worm's Memory of Things Past

Pheromones

Tissue-Specific Emission of (E)-alpha-Bergamotene Helps Resolve the Dilemma When Pollinators Are Also Herbivores

2016

Gain and Loss of Floral Scent Production through Changes in Structural Genes during Pollinator-Mediated Speciation

Ceropegia sandersonii Mimics Attacked Honeybees to Attract Kleptoparasitic Flies for Pollination

Biotremology

Ageing: Why Males Curtail the Longevity of Their Mates

Fecal-Derived Phenol Induces Egg-Laying Aversion in Drosophila

Local Pheromone Release from Dynamic Polarity Sites Underlies Cell-Cell Pairing during Yeast Mating

Activation of Latent Courtship Circuitry in the Brain of Drosophila Females Induces Male-like Behaviors

Amino Acid Change in an Orchid Desaturase Enables Mimicry of the Pollinator's Sex Pheromone

Sexually Antagonistic Male Signals Manipulate Germline and Soma of C. elegans Hermaphrodites

Self-Exposure to the Male Pheromone ESP1 Enhances Male Aggressiveness in Mice

Repeated Inactivation of the First Committed Enzyme Underlies the Loss of Benzaldehyde Emission after the Selfing Transition in Capsella

Plant Evolution: Repeated Loss of Floral Scent - A Path of Least Resistance?

Parental Care: When the Sex Has to Stop

2015

Dual effect of wasp queen pheromone in regulating insect sociality

Innate Predator Odor Aversion Driven by Parallel Olfactory Subsystems that Converge in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus

Experimental Evolution of Species Recognition

A massive expansion of effector genes underlies gall-formation in the wheat pest Mayetiola destructor

RGS proteins and septins cooperate to promote chemotropism by regulating polar cap mobility

A Wolbachia-Sensitive Communication between Male and Female Pupae Controls Gamete Compatibility in Drosophila

2014

Natural variation in dauer pheromone production and sensing supports intraspecific competition in nematodes

Animal behavior: social recognition in crickets

Desert ants locate food by combining high sensitivity to food odors with extensive crosswind runs

Condition dependence of male mortality drives the evolution of sex differences in longevity

Identity of a tilapia pheromone released by dominant males that primes females for reproduction

Identification of an olfactory signal molecule that activates the central regulator of reproduction in goats

Olfactory coding in the honeybee lateral horn

Chemosensory communication of gender through two human steroids in a sexually dimorphic manner

Self-recognition in crickets via on-line processing

Pheromones: the scent of a male

Pheromone signaling: a pissing contest in tilapia

Regulation of cyclin-substrate docking by a G1 arrest signaling pathway and the Cdk inhibitor Far1

2013

Cell polarity: wanderful exploration in yeast sex

Cdc42 explores the cell periphery for mate selection in fission yeast

Ant pupae employ acoustics to communicate social status in their colony's hierarchy

A Mendelian trait for olfactory sensitivity affects odor experience and food selection

Nematode-trapping fungi eavesdrop on nematode pheromones

Chemical communication: a jewel sheds light on signal evolution

The molecular basis of sugar sensing in Drosophila larvae

Cell differentiation to 'mating bodies' induced by an integrating and conjugative element in free-living bacteria

Tracking shallow chemical gradients by actin-driven wandering of the polarization site

"Visualization of neural activity in insect brains using a conserved immediate early gene, Hr38"

Tight genetic linkage of prezygotic barrier loci creates a multifunctional speciation island in Petunia

2012

Behavioral neuroscience: learning to suckle with signature odor

Ascaroside signaling is widely conserved among nematodes

Learned recognition of maternal signature odors mediates the first suckling episode in mice

The chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences

Pheromones: evolving language of chemical communication in nematodes

Sensory regulation of the C. elegans germline through TGF-beta-dependent signaling in the niche

Substrate-borne vibratory communication during courtship in Drosophila melanogaster

Sexual attraction: sex-specific wiring of neural circuitry

Pheromones: fish fear factor

2011

Cyclin-specific docking motifs promote phosphorylation of yeast signaling proteins by G1/S Cdk complexes

Extreme aggression in male squid induced by a beta-MSP-like pheromone

Asymmetry in sexual pheromones is not required for ascomycete mating

Chemoreception: identifying friends and foes

Pollinator choice in Petunia depends on two major genetic Loci for floral scent production

Yeast mating: trying out new pickup lines

2010

Courtship behavior: the right touch stimulates the proper song

A negative feedback signal that is triggered by peril curbs honey bee recruitment

A deceptive pollination system targeting drosophilids through olfactory mimicry of yeast

Plant volatiles

Sexual dimorphism in the fly brain

The shaping of male courtship posture by lateralized gustatory inputs to male-specific interneurons

An olfactory subsystem that detects carbon disulfide and mediates food-related social learning

2009

Dopamine receptor activation by honey bee queen pheromone

CO(2) regulates white-to-opaque switching in Candida albicans

Chemical signalling: laser on the fly reveals a new male-specific pheromone

Cuckoo fungus mimics termite eggs by producing the cellulose-digesting enzyme beta-glucosidase

A Drosophila gustatory receptor essential for aversive taste and inhibiting male-to-male courtship

Characterization and coding of behaviorally significant odor mixtures

Bee pheromones: signal or agent of manipulation?

A new male sex pheromone and novel cuticular cues for chemical communication in Drosophila

Orchid mimics honey bee alarm pheromone in order to attract hornets for pollination

Social facilitation of long-lasting memory retrieval in Drosophila

2008

Female presence is required for male sexual maturity in the nematode Steinernema longicaudum

Chemical coevolution: host-parasite arms race runs hot and cold

Coactivation of G protein signaling by cell-surface receptors and an intracellular exchange factor

C. elegans anaplastic lymphoma kinase ortholog SCD-2 controls dauer formation by modulating TGF-beta signaling

Behavioural genetics: the social fly

Behavioural genetics: worms seek that old beetle smell

Candida biofilms: is adhesion sexy?

Membrane localization of scaffold proteins promotes graded signaling in the yeast MAP kinase cascade

The survival advantage of olfaction in a competitive environment

An olfactory shift is associated with male perfume differentiation and species divergence in orchid bees

Oscillatory phosphorylation of yeast Fus3 MAP kinase controls periodic gene expression and morphogenesis

Social context influences chemical communication in D. melanogaster males

Social experience modifies pheromone expression and mating behavior in male Drosophila melanogaster

Sexual behaviour: a receptor for sex control in Drosophila females

Sexual dimorphism: can you smell the difference?

2007

Generalization of courtship learning in Drosophila is mediated by cis-vaccenyl acetate

Kin recognition: knowing who's boss in wasp colonies

Mate recognition: should fly stay or should fly go?

Mating type and the genetic basis of self-fertility in the model fungus Aspergillus nidulans

Systems biology: a switch for sex

Positive-feedback loops as a flexible biological module

Sex- and strain-specific expression and vomeronasal activity of mouse ESP family peptides

Self-fertility: the genetics of sex in lonely fungi

Sugar receptors in Drosophila

Receptors and neurons for fly odors in Drosophila

The sensory circuitry for sexual attraction in C. elegans males

2006

Chemoattraction in Pristionchus nematodes and implications for insect recognition

Communication in ants

Dual role for membrane localization in yeast MAP kinase cascade activation and its contribution to signaling fidelity

A Drosophila protein specific to pheromone-sensing gustatory hairs delays males' copulation attempts

Nursing behavior: remembrance of things past

Habitually used hibernation sites of paper wasps are marked with venom and cuticular peptides

Sleeping functional group drives coral-reef recovery

A pheromone that rapidly promotes learning in the newborn

The vomeronasal system and pheromones

U-turns on ant pheromone trails

2005

Ant navigation: reading geometrical signposts

Genetic and functional subdivision of the Drosophila antennal lobe

Distinct contributions of T1R2 and T1R3 taste receptor subunits to the detection of sweet stimuli

Evidence for sexuality in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

"Mate choice: been there, done that"

Social learning in noncolonial insects?

Sequential learning of pheromonal cues modulates memory consolidation in trainer-specific associative courtship conditioning

Social signals: the secret language of mice

2004

Something in the air? New insights into mammalian pheromones

2003

Combinatorial coexpression of neural and immune multigene families in mouse vomeronasal sensory neurons

Vomeronasal organ: pheromone recognition with a twist

2002

Mammalian pheromones: from genes to behaviour

"Comment on Severin, F.F., and Hyman, A.A. (2002). Pheromone induces programmed cell death in S. cerevisiae. Curr. Biol. 12, R233-R235"

Pheromone induces programmed cell death in S. cerevisiae

2001

MAPK specificity in the yeast pheromone response independent of transcriptional activation

Yeast mating: getting close to membrane merger

2000

MAP kinase signaling induces nuclear reorganization in budding yeast

Phosphorylation of the MEKK Ste11p by the PAK-like kinase Ste20p is required for MAP kinase signaling in vivo

Sex-specific non-pheromonal taste receptors in Drosophila

1999

Inverse relationship between systemic resistance of plants to microorganisms and to insect herbivory

The guanine-nucleotide-exchange factor Cdc24p is targeted to the nucleus and polarized growth sites

Suckling defect in mice lacking the soluble haemopoietin receptor NR6

Pheromone reception: A complex map of activation in the brain

1998

Functional binding between Gbeta and the LIM domain of Ste5 is required to activate the MEKK Ste11

"Conjugation in S. pombe: identification of a microtubule-organising centre, a requirement for microtubules and a role for Mad2"

Sexual behaviour in Drosophila is irreversibly programmed during a critical period

A role for the yeast actin cytoskeleton in pheromone receptor clustering and signalling

1997

Regulation of the mating pheromone and invasive growth responses in yeast by two MAP kinase substrates

1996

Human Ste20 homologue hPAK1 links GTPases to the JNK MAP kinase pathway

Neuroanatomy: mushrooming mushroom bodies

Kinase connections on the cellular intranet. Signalling pathways

1995

Aging. Silence is golden

1994

Evolutionary genetics. The nature and origin of mating types

1993

One-step site-directed mutagenesis of the Kex2 protease oxyanion hole