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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Sensory Preferences in Romantic Attraction
Sexuality & Culture, 2019 Various physical characteristics of a partner—visual, auditory, tactile and kinetic, olfactory, and gustatory—can affect human mate choice and romantic attraction. Evolutionary factors, as well as socioeconomic and cultural parameters play their role in these sensory preferences.
Victor Karandashev +8 more
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Decoding attraction: Improving vine weevil monitoring by exploiting key sensory cues
Pest Management Science, 2023 AbstractBACKGROUNDMonitoring is an integral component of integrated pest management (IPM) programmes used to inform crop management decisions. Vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), continues to cause economically significant losses in horticultural crops due to an inability to reliably detect the presence of this species ...
Eugenia Fezza +5 more
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Attractant and Repellent Signaling Conformers of Sensory Rhodopsin−Transducer Complexes
Biochemistry, 2010 Attractant and repellent signaling conformers of the dual-signaling phototaxis receptor sensory rhodopsin I and its transducer subunit (SRI-HtrI) have recently been distinguished experimentally by the opposite connection of their retinylidene protonated Schiff bases to the outwardly located periplasmic side and inwardly located cytoplasmic side.
Sineshchekov, Oleg A +3 more
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Sensory Biology: Acoustic Reflectors Attract Bats to Roost in Pitcher Plants [PDF]
Current Biology, 2015 A new study shows that a carnivorous plant attracts bats by possessing modified pitfall taps that increase the reflectivity of echolocation calls. Bats benefit by finding roosting sites, and the plants gain by receiving nitrogen from guano.
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A Single Sensory Neuron Directs Both Attractive and Repulsive Odor Preferences [PDF]
Neuron, 2008 Animal behaviors are subjected to innate preferences, which are usually encoded by dedicated sensory neurons. In this issue of Neuron, Tsunozaki and colleagues show that one olfactory neuron in Caenorhabditis elegans produces two opposing preferences to an odor by regulating cGMP and PKC signaling.
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Multimodal Integration of Carbon Dioxide and Other Sensory Cues Drives Mosquito Attraction to Humans [PDF]
Cell, 2014 Multiple sensory cues emanating from humans are thought to guide blood-feeding female mosquitoes to a host. To determine the relative contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) detection to mosquito host-seeking behavior, we mutated the AaegGr3 gene, a subunit of the heteromeric CO2 receptor in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
McMeniman, Conor J. +4 more
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Effect of sea buckthorn biomass on oxidation stability and sensory attractiveness of cereal biscuits
BioResources, 2021 The purpose of this work was to investigate the effect of 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% additions of sea buckthorn biomass to cereal biscuits and analyze the oxidation stability and sensory attractiveness. The oxidation stability of the biscuits was evaluated with an Oxitest reactor under 6.0 bar oxygen pressure at 110 °C, and the increase in the induction ...
Lívia Janotková +6 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Plasma membranes contain dynamic nanoscale domains that organize lipids and receptors. Because viruses operate at similar scales, this architecture shapes early infection steps, including attachment, receptor engagement, and entry. Using influenza A virus and HIV‐1 as examples, we highlight how receptor nanoclusters, multivalent glycan interactions ...
Jan Schlegel, Christian Sieben
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His166 Is the Schiff Base Proton Acceptor in Attractant Phototaxis Receptor Sensory Rhodopsin I [PDF]
Biochemistry, 2014 Photoactivation of attractant phototaxis receptor sensory rhodopsin I (SRI) in Halobacterium salinarum entails transfer of a proton from the retinylidene chromophore's Schiff base (SB) to an unidentified acceptor residue on the cytoplasmic half-channel, in sharp contrast to other microbial rhodopsins, including the closely related repellent phototaxis ...
Sasaki, Jun +5 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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