I have read this excellent book, but not yet had time to prepare a review because it arrived at the time I became extremely busy with other matters. For now, I can only again attest to the fact that:
Informed consumers who want to stay up-to-date may want to acquire the newly released 2nd edition of Rob van den Hurk’s book.
van den Hurk, R. (2011). Intraspecific chemical communication in vertebrates with special attention to sex pheromones. Zeist, The Netherlands, Pheromone Information Centre.
available for $45 or 35 euros (postage included)
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James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.