Pheromones and animal behaviour: communication by smell and taste
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1. Verfasser: Wyatt, Tristram D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2003
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-358) and index
Animals in a chemical world -- Discovering pheromones -- Sex pheromones: finding and choosing mates -- Coming together and keeping apart: aggregation and host-marketing pheromones -- Scent marking and territorial behaviour -- Pheromones and social organisation -- Pheromones and recruitment communication -- Fight or flight: alarm pheromones -- Perception and action of pheromones: from receptor molecules to brains and behaviour -- Finding the source: pheromones and orientation behaviour -- Breaking the code: illicit signallers and receivers of semiochemical signals -- Using pheromones: applications -- On the scent of human attraction: human pheromones? -- Appendix A1. An introduction to pheromones for non-chemists -- Appendix A2. Isomers and pheromones -- Appendix A3. Further reading on pheromone chemical structure
How do animals, including humans, communicate with each other by scent? Chemical scents and smells are used by a huge variety of animals to find mates, warn off enemies, and as alarm signals, amongst other things. Students will find this a readable and enjoyable introduction to this fascinating field
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 391 p.)
ISBN:0511075774
0511077343
051135133X
9780511075773
9780511077340
9780511351334

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