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Pheromones and animal behaviour : communication by smell and taste /
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 fiel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.