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    Bombykol is a pheromone released by the female silkworm moth to attract mates. It is also the sex pheromone in the wild silk moth (Bombyx mandarina). Discovered...
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  • substances to send sexual signals. The first to be described chemically was bombykol, the silkworm moth's sex pheromone, which is a complex alcohol, (E,Z)-10...
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    discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms, which he named bombykol. Born in Lehe, near Bremerhaven, he started his studies at the University...
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    biochemist Adolf Butenandt had characterized the first such chemical, bombykol, a chemically well-characterized pheromone released by the female silkworm...
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  • C16H30O (molar mass: 238.41 g/mol, exact mass: 238.2297 u) may refer to: Bombykol Cyclohexadecanone Muscone This set index page lists chemical structure...
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  • Sexuallockstoff des Seidenspinners, II. Konstitution und Konfiguration des Bombykols". Hoppe-Seyler's Zeitschrift für Physiologische Chemie. 324: 84–87. doi:10...
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    of this was the molecular identification of the first known pheromone, bombykol, which required extracts from 500,000 individuals, due to the small quantities...
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  • German Biochemist Adolf Butenandt characterized the first such chemical, Bombykol (a chemically well-characterized pheromone released by the female silkworm...
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    pheromones; a male silkworm moth, for example, can sense a single molecule of bombykol. Fish, too, have a well-developed sense of smell, even though they inhabit...
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  • obtained an X-ray crystal structure for the volatile insect pheromone bombykol with its binding partner located on the antennae of female silkworm moths...
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    attraction in the silkworm moth: structure of the pheromone-binding-protein-bombykol complex". Chemistry & Biology. 7 (2): 143–151. doi:10.1016/s1074-5521(00)00078-8...
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    substance from more than 500,000 insects, which Butenandt later named Bombykol. By elemental analysis, Butenandt determined the chemical formula of the...
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    1959, Adolf Butenandt identified the first intraspecific chemical signal (bombykol) from the silk moth, Bombyx mori, with material obtained by grinding up...
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  • According to the effects of gene disruption in the pheromone synthesis of bombykol, the main pheromone component of the silk moth (Bombyx mori) and the corn...
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  • attraction in the silkworm moth: structure of the pheromone-binding-protein–bombykol complex". Chemistry & Biology. 7 (2): 143–151. doi:10.1016/s1074-5521(00)00078-8...
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