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A HREF="http://www.achems.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=PressRelease_0406&category=About%20AChemS#12">Chemistry unifies the big and small: elephants and bark beetles utilise elements of an identical chemical language -- It never ceases to amaze that the more species differ from one another, the more similar they seem to share in common. Such is the case in the chemical language of elephants and how they use chemistry identical to that used by some bark beetles to convey similar intended messages.

As the nose and the brain grows: neurogenesis and olfaction in crustaceans -- In the last decade, scientists have discovered that lobsters, crabs, crayfish and other crustaceans add new neurons to their nervous systems throughout their lives, just as mammals do. Those new neurons aren't added just anywhere, however. They grow specifically in areas that control the sense of smell.

The irresistible scent of bile summons migrating salmon and trout home -- Although born in streams, salmon spend most of their lives in the open ocean feeding before returning to their birth-streams to reproduce. While it's been known for decades that salmon recognize home-streams using their sense of smell, the identity of the odors has been a mystery. It is now thought that bile acids, digestive chemicals released by riverine fish, are likely an important part of these odors.

Sweet tooth is inherited -- A study of Finnish families revealed that individual differences in liking for extremely sweet solution and for sweet foods are partly genetic

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17-Apr-2006


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