Wyatt, Tristram D.

Pheromones and animal behaviour : communication by smell and taste / Tristram D. Wyatt - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 - xv, 391 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Animals in a chemical world -- Discovering pheromones -- Sex pheromones: finding and choosing mates -- Coming together and keeping apart: aggregation and host-marking pheromones -- Scent marking and territorial behaviour -- Pheromones and social organization -- 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?

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Animal communication.
Pheromones.
Chemical senses.

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