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3 Chemical ecology: Can it survive without natural products chemistry?
3 Chemical ecology: Can it survive without natural products chemistry?
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The signal molecules that convey information from one organism to another are biosynthesized under genetic control, deciphered at specific receptor sites, transduced into neuronal, neuroendocrine, or phytoendocrine signals, and, eventually, after triggering intermediate cascading effects, translated into behavioral or morphogenetic responses. Each step in this sequence of events lends itself to interpretation in molecular terms.
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To stand by and allow natural products chemistry to vanish, or even to be weakened, is to deny chemical ecology its future. My research in chemical ecology is supported by National Institutes of Health Grant AI 02908.
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