Titre
The joy of sex pheromones.
Type
synthèse (review)
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Gomez-Diaz, C.
Auteure/Auteur
Benton, R.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1469-3178
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2013
Volume
14
Numéro
10
Première page
874
Dernière page/numéro d’article
883
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Sex pheromones provide an important means of communication to unite individuals for successful reproduction. Although sex pheromones are highly diverse across animals, these signals fulfil common fundamental roles in enabling identification of a mating partner of the opposite sex, the appropriate species and of optimal fecundity. In this review, we synthesize both classic and recent investigations on sex pheromones in a range of species, spanning nematode worms, insects and mammals. These studies reveal comparable strategies in how these chemical signals are produced, detected and processed in the brain to regulate sexual behaviours. Elucidation of sex pheromone communication mechanisms both defines outstanding models to understand the molecular and neuronal basis of chemosensory behaviours, and reveals how similar evolutionary selection pressures yield convergent solutions in distinct animal nervous systems. EMBO reports advance online publication 13 September 2013; doi:10.1038/embor.2013.140.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_11F0DA549610
PMID
Open Access
Oui
Date de création
2013-11-01T08:48:13.508Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T18:35:08Z