Sentence examples for release alarm from inspiring English sources

All sorts of organisms, including plants, insects and mammals, release "alarm pheromones" when they sense danger; the pheromones waft through the air to warn others.

Injured plants also release alarm signals through air and soil that can be construed as evidence of vegetal despair, or at least a reminder that no life form likes being eaten, even by vegans.

We show here that Nature, as a good engineer, selected a redundant "double level" and "double release" alarm system.

Such an approach illustrates the role of nociception as a "double level" and "double release" alarm system based on level detectors.

Commonly, plants release alarm signals upon attack by herbivorous insects and the total amounts released increase with herbivore density, thereby providing information to predators about the abundance of herbivores, their prey (see introduction).

In contrast, females do not release alarm pheromone when mounted by a male [ 10, 11].

As it is, Mr. Bruel — a jowlier Yves Montand who projects the comforting stability that Alice and her wackadoodle family lack — allows the audience to hope that the chloroform-releasing alarm system he installs in Alice's pharmacy might one day be employed to silence its profoundly irritating owner.

This increases venom delivery and releases alarm pheromone and the apparatus can continue to pulsate long after the stinging event (Hermann 1971; Burrell and Smith 1995).

However, the alarm pheromone has a dual function in bed bugs, where a mounted male responds by releasing alarm pheromone to prevent homosexual mating [ 10], in addition to adopting specific behaviours [ 5].

Indeed, males, in addition to releasing alarm pheromone while mounted [ 10], adopt specific behaviours of non-acceptance by bending their abdomen and shaking their body in order to escape piercing (personal observations).

The World Economics Forum in January released alarming statistics about the prevalence of plastics in the world's oceans.