Matthew Cobb

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Matthew Cobb is affiliated with the following schools: University of Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, University of Manchester

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PhD Zoology University of Manchester
Bachelors Biology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is known for his popular science books The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth; Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; and The Idea of the Brain: A History. Cobb has appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, The Life Scientific, and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry, as well as on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC World Service.

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Matthew Cobb's Published Works

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Drosophila Cuticular Hydrocarbons Revisited: Mating Status Alters Cuticular Profiles (2010) (257)
The red flour beetle's large nose: an expanded odorant receptor gene family in Tribolium castaneum. (2008) (194)
Pheromones, mate recognition and courtship stimulation in the Drosophila melanogaster species sub-group (1990) (192)
Sex, age and ovarian activity affect cuticular hydrocarbons in Diacamma ceylonense, a queenless ant. (2001) (181)
Genetic elimination of known pheromones reveals the fundamental chemical bases of mating and isolation in Drosophila. (1999) (151)
An Inhibitory Sex Pheromone Tastes Bitter for Drosophila Males (2007) (143)
Darwinism's Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection (1998) (118)
What and how do maggots smell? (1999) (103)
World-wide variation inDrosophila melanogaster sex pheromone: behavioural effects, genetic bases and potential evolutionary consequences (2004) (93)
Evolution and genetic control of mate recognition and stimulation in Drosophila (1995) (91)
Regulation of reproduction in a queenless ant: aggression, pheromones and reduction in conflict (2002) (85)
60 years ago, Francis Crick changed the logic of biology (2017) (82)
Incipient speciation in Drosophila melanogaster involves chemical signals (2012) (62)
Exorcizing the animal spirits: Jan Swammerdam on nerve function (2002) (61)
Species-specific effects of single sensillum ablation on mating position in Drosophila (2003) (60)
The Misunderstood Gene (2001) (55)
The prehistory of biology preprints: A forgotten experiment from the 1960s (2017) (54)
The Structure of Courtship in the Drosophila Melanogaster Species Sub-Group (1986) (53)
Insect Hydrocarbons: Behavioral and evolutionary roles of cuticular hydrocarbons in Diptera (2010) (51)
Courtship Behaviour in the Melanogaster Species Sub-Group of Drosophila (1985) (50)
Dog paw preference shows lability and sex differences (2006) (49)
Who discovered messenger RNA? (2015) (49)
Courtship inDrosophila sechellia: Its structure, functional aspects, and relationship to those of other members of theDrosophila melanogaster species subgroup (2005) (48)
The relationship between locomotor activity and courtship in the melanogaster species sub-group of Drosophila (1987) (42)
Olfactory coding in Drosophila larvae investigated by cross-adaptation (2005) (41)
Desiccation resistance: effect of cuticular hydrocarbons and water content in Drosophila melanogaster adults (2018) (33)
Complex Chemical Messages in Drosophila (1989) (33)
Malpighi, Swammerdam and the Colourful Silkworm: Replication and Visual Representation in Early Modern Science (2002) (33)
Sexual isolation and courtship behavior inDrosophila simulans, D. mauritiana, and their interspecific hybrids (1988) (33)
Multiple genetic control of acetate-induced olfactory responses in Drosophila melanogaster larvae (1994) (30)
Historicity and the Population Genetics of Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans (2004) (28)
Heredity before genetics: a history (2006) (28)
Global Survey of Variation in a Human Olfactory Receptor Gene Reveals Signatures of Non-Neutral Evolution. (2015) (24)
Precise and Fuzzy Coding by Olfactory Sensory Neurons (2008) (24)
An amazing 10 years: the discovery of egg and sperm in the 17th century. (2012) (24)
FEMALE MATE DISCRIMINATION OR MALE RESPONSES TO FEMALE STIMULATION? (1996) (20)
1953: When Genes Became “Information” (2013) (20)
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (2015) (20)
Oswald Avery, DNA, and the transformation of biology (2014) (19)
Pycnogonids (2010) (18)
Modeling Peripheral Olfactory Coding in Drosophila Larvae (2011) (18)
Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE (2018) (18)
Reading and writing The Book of Nature: Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) (2000) (17)
Gustation in Drosophila melanogaster. (2009) (16)
Chemical stimuli induce courtship dominance in Drosophila (2005) (16)
Reproductive conflicts and mutilation in queenless Diacamma ants (2006) (16)
Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster olfactory mutation Indifferent. (1996) (15)
The Idea of the Brain: A History (2020) (14)
THE RECEPTION AND CONSUMPTION OF EASTERN GOODS IN ROMAN SOCIETY (2013) (14)
Social mutilation in the Ponerine ant Diacamma: cues originate in the victims (2004) (12)
Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth (2006) (11)
A gene mutation which changed animal behaviour: Margaret Bastock and the yellow fly (2007) (11)
The behaviour of Drosophila melanogaster maggots is affected by social, physiological and temporal factors (2008) (10)
Morphological variations in the pre‐imaginal development of the ponerine ant Diacamma ceylonense (2005) (10)
ALTERED MATING BEHAVIOR IN A CARSONIAN POPULATION OF DROSOPHILA SECHELLIA (1990) (10)
Black Pepper Consumption in the Roman Empire (2018) (9)
THE DECLINE OF PTOLEMAIC ELEPHANT HUNTING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS* (2016) (9)
The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix, Kersten T. Hall. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014), 256 pp. Price £18.99, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-19-870459-1 (2015) (8)
Behavioral and evolutionary roles of cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila (2010) (7)
The peripheral olfactory code in Drosophila larvae contains temporal information and is robust over multiple timescales (2016) (7)
Biographical article¶¶Jan Swammerdam on social insects: a view from the seventeenth century (2002) (7)
Pre-imaginal conditioning alters adult sex pheromone response in Drosophila (2018) (6)
(Re)Reading The Origin (2009) (6)
The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis (2009) (6)
The Chronology of Roman Trade in the Indian Ocean from Augustus to Early Third Century ce (2015) (6)
Balancing the Trade: Roman Cargo Shipments to India (2015) (6)
Stegosaurs (2009) (5)
Life's Greatest Secret (2015) (5)
aggression , pheromones and reduction in conflict Regulation of reproduction in a queenless ant : (2003) (4)
Preprints: recall Nature’s nasty past (2019) (4)
(Re)Reading The Origin (2009) (4)
ACID SEAS BLOCK NEMO'S NOSE (2010) (3)
The Exchange of Goods from Italy to India during the Early Roman Empire – The Range of Travelling Times (2014) (3)
The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity (2018) (3)
Thonis-Heracleion in Context (2016) (3)
A Speculative History of DNA: What If Oswald Avery Had Died in 1934? (2016) (2)
Atheism could be science's contribution to religion. (2008) (2)
A genius of place (2016) (2)
The Roman State and the Indian Ocean Trade (2018) (1)
Age and experience affect the biosynthesis and emission of a Drosophila pheromone (2022) (1)
Commentary: Through a glass, darkly-Dick Lewontin's 1968 lecture on human genetics. (2016) (1)
THE DAMSELFLY ENIGMA: BETTER BIGGER OR SMALLER? (2010) (1)
A culture of complexity (2018) (1)
A way with nature (2014) (1)
The egg & sperm race (2006) (1)
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (2016) (1)
Eleven Days in August (2013) (1)
SMART ROOKS USE TOOLS (2009) (0)
Mediterranean goods in an Indian context (2021) (0)
4. Smell, location, and memory (2020) (0)
OLFACTORY RECEPTORS TEAR UP THE TEXTBOOKS! (2006) (0)
The geneticist and the philosopher Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize, Sean B. Carroll, (Crown Publishing Group, New York, NY; 2013), ISBN: 978-0-307-95233-2 (2013) (0)
WHAT MADE THE TRACKS? (2009) (0)
A great stripy puzzle (2017) (0)
'Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun' : crises of identity in the Cold War writings of Alfred Bester, 1950-1960 (2016) (0)
Leadership and the war between the states (1998) (0)
Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris August 1944 (2013) (0)
What else is conscious (2017) (0)
7. The smell of the future (2020) (0)
Q-biology, or not (2014) (0)
Genetic and functional odorant receptor variation in the Homo lineage (2021) (0)
2. Smelling with genes (2020) (0)
HOT BUGS SHOW EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE (2010) (0)
Drawn-out lies (2015) (0)
Genetics: On the heredity trail (2016) (0)
Genetics: On the heredity trail. (2016) (0)
JEKYLL AND HYDE SQUID (2008) (0)
What Makes It Pop?: an Analysis of Selected Pop Songs (2004) (0)
Drosophila Courtship: Neuronal Coordination of Behavioural Sequences and a 60-Year-Old Hypothesis (2019) (0)
Factors affecting the biosynthesis and emission of a Drosophila pheromone. (2022) (0)
SOCIABLE FLIES DAYDREAM (2007) (0)
The unclosed loop–ESF minibrains meeting report (2011) (0)
THE FLY OF THE LORDS (1995) (0)
David N. Cooper and Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki (Eds.): Handbook of human molecular evolution (2009) (0)
CATERPILLARS MOVE LIKE PISTONS (2011) (0)
Playing dice with the animals (2017) (0)
Gull's eye view (2004) (0)
From the Ptolemies to Augustus (2018) (0)
Habilitation not just alive in France, but growing (2002) (0)
Conceptualising the far west (2020) (0)
IN MEMORIAM—Daniel Lachaise (2006) (0)
DNA's forgotten hero (2015) (0)
3. Smell signals (2020) (0)
Taking a brush to nature (2017) (0)
VISION COSTS (2007) (0)
Amazing apians (2018) (0)
ARE ELEPHANTS SELF-AWARE? (2007) (0)
Dodging extinction's bullet (2015) (0)
Genetics - Gene Ethics: Interviews with Hungarian Scientists Edited by Andrea Ferenczi (2002) (0)
1. How we smell (2020) (0)
Trade Routes and Merchant Diasporas (2018) (0)
A world of water (2018) (0)
5. The ecology of smell (2020) (0)
THE SMELL OF DANCING BEES (2008) (0)
BIRDS MAY HAVE BIGGER NOSES THAN WE THOUGHT (2008) (0)
Geography of Terrorism (2018) (0)
Peoples of the Eastern Desert of Egypt and their Impact on the Red Sea Trade: 1st to 3rd Centuries AD (2018) (0)
Pheromone Biochemistry: Vol. 1, edited by G.D. Prestwich and G.J. Blomquist, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1987, XX., 565 pp. illus. (1989) (0)
Keep calm and evolve (2018) (0)
Wondrous order (2001) (0)
EHPnet: Evolving Research (1997) (0)
Raymond Stephanson; Darren N. Wagner (Editors). The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century. xviii + 560 pp., illus., bibls., index. Toronto/London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. $67.50 (cloth). (2016) (0)
ONISCOPHAGOUS ARACHNIDS: OR EATING ROLLERS (2008) (0)
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Globalization or Glocalization – analysing the dynamics of the ancient Indian Ocean ivory trade ? (2021) (0)
What and how do maggots taste (2007) (0)
The Ptolemies and the Erythra Thalassa (2018) (0)
Smell: A Very Short Introduction (2020) (0)
6. Smell in culture (2020) (0)
What are the bonobos thinking of (2004) (0)
Review: Molecular Biology, Macroscopic History (2007) (0)
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019) (2019) (0)
CATERPILLARS MAKE NOISES LIKE ANTS (2009) (0)
Bibliography (2004) (0)
FLIES TUNE INTO BACTERIAL SIGNALS (2007) (0)
From wildlife to street life (2018) (0)
Organisation and Finance (2018) (0)
Rome’s Trade Balance with India (2018) (0)
The Peak of Roman Trade in the Indian Ocean (2018) (0)
Peering through the bars (2015) (0)
EROS AT JUNNAR: RECONSIDERING A PIECE OF MEDITERRANEAN ART (2019) (0)
What’s in a name? Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels, Stephen B. Heard, Illustrated by Emily S. Damstra, (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT; 2020) ISBN: 978-0-300-23828-0 (2020) (0)
HORNETS FOOLED BY ORCHIDS THAT SMELL OF SCARED BEES (2009) (0)
HOW THE SNAIL SHELL GOT ITS TWIST (2010) (0)
Chirpers and croakers (2003) (0)
Impact factors: letting everyone have their say (2003) (0)

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