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SIRENIN (I am indebted to Dr. A. Vegis for suggesting, what seems to me, this aptly descriptive name) is the name, used here for the first time, for the chemotactic sexual hormone from the water-mould Allomyces which attracts the male gametes and is produced by the female gametes1. This hormone has now been produced and purified.
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MACHLIS, L. A Procedure for the Purification of Sirenin. Nature 181, 1790–1791 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811790b0
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