Finding a mating partner in a dioecious species is
an obligatory process for species survival. We have
used C. remanei and C. elegans as models to show
that only females of the dioecious species can
produce a volatile and stable sex pheromone to
effectively attract males. Since males from both
dioecious and androdioecious species respond to this
same pheromone, I utilize these species to focus my
investigation on three specific issues: To study sex
pheromone production in C. remanei, to characterize
C. remanei female sex pheromone, and to identify the
cellular and the molecular...