The Antibacterial Protein Lysozyme Identified as the Termite Egg Recognition Pheromone

Kenji Matsuura; Takashi Tamura; Norimasa Kobayashi; Toshihisa Yashiro; Shingo Tatsumi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000813

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The Antibacterial Protein Lysozyme Identified as the Termite Egg Recognition Pheromone

Kenji Matsuura ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kenjijpn@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Takashi Tamura,

Affiliation Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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Norimasa Kobayashi,

Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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Toshihisa Yashiro,

Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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Shingo Tatsumi

Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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The Antibacterial Protein Lysozyme Identified as the Termite Egg Recognition Pheromone

Kenji Matsuura,
Takashi Tamura,
Norimasa Kobayashi,
Toshihisa Yashiro,
Shingo Tatsumi

Published: August 29, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000813

About the Authors

Kenji Matsuura

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kenjijpn@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Takashi Tamura

Affiliation Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Norimasa Kobayashi

Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Toshihisa Yashiro

Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Shingo Tatsumi

Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM TT. Performed the experiments: KM TY NK ST. Analyzed the data: KM NK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT. Wrote the paper: KM.

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