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What are pheromones and how do they work?

By: Jack Alder

The 1st pheromone of all time known (in 1956) was a strong attractant for silkworm moths. A group of German scientists worked 20 years in order to isolate it. Subsequently getting rid of distinct secretory organs at the tip of the belly of 500,000 female moths, they elicited a peculiar chemical compound. The most miniscule measure of it made male moths drummed their wings insanely in a "quiver dance." This clear signal that the males had sensed the attractant enabled the scientists to distil the pheromone. Gradually, they withdrew extraneous matter and aggressively minimized the total of attractant necessary to elicit the flicker dance.

When in the end they acquired a chemically pristine pheromone, they appointed it "bombykol" for the silkworm moth, "Bombyx mori" from which it was extracted. It signaled, "come to me!" from great lengths. "It has been soberly estimated that if a lone female moth were to liberate all the bombykol in her sac in a lone spray, all together, she could theoretically draw a trillion males in the instant," wrote Lewis Thomas in The Lives of a Cell.

In handling with mammals, however, researchers confronted an totally contrary challenge. Compared to insects, whose demeanour is stereotypical and easily foreseeable, mammals are loose, ornery, complicated animals. Their behavior changes greatly, and its thinking is not always unmistakable.

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