Kevin E. Bruce

TL;DR: Functionally, the large increase in linear alcohols in male and female preen oil during the breeding season may be an indication of altered lipid biosynthesis, which might signal reproductive readiness, and Linear alcohols might also facilitate junco odor blending with plant volatiles in the habitat to distract mammalian predators.

TL;DR: It is suggested that ferrets may use urine marking for sex and individual recognitions, and most of the major compounds in anal glands were not present in urine, which suggests that urine may convey specific signals that differ from those of anal glands.

TL;DR: It is shown that the cst operon is strongly and transiently induced by cellular sulfide stress in an acute phase and specific response and that cst‐encoded genes are necessary to mitigate the effects of sulfide toxicity.

TL;DR: It is shown here that CupA is a novel cell membrane-anchored Cu(I) chaperone, and that aCu(I)-binding competent, membrane-localized CupsA is obligatory for copper resistance, consistent with a primary role of CupA in cytoplasmic Cu( I) sequestration and/or direct delivery to the transmembrane site of CopA for cellular efflux.

TL;DR: A rolling stir bar sampling procedure for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present on various biological surfaces using embedded internal standards provides highly reproducible and quantitative results for a wide variety of sampled trace components.