Small-molecule mimicry hunting strategy in the imperial cone snail, <i>Conus imperialis</i>

Joshua P. Torres, Zhenjian Lin, Maren Watkins, Paula Flórez Salcedo, Robert P. Baskin, Shireen Elhabian, Helena Safavi-­Hemami, Dylan Taylor, Jortan O. Tun, Gisela P. Concepción,

Science Advances · 2021 · 27 citations · 56 references

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uses metabolically stable mimics of those pheromones, indicating that, in biological mimicry, even the molecules themselves may be disguised, providing a twist on fake news in chemical ecology.

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