Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan ...

In the study, alcohol, and particularly methanol, increased the males' production and release of chemical sex signals, called pheromones, which made them more attractive to females. Pheromones are ...

We are also studying structural and functional properties of spider silk proteins and their constituent domains, with the ambition to understand how spider silk formation occurs in nature. By doing ...