Pheromones and animal behaviour : communication by smell and taste /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wyatt, Tristram D., 1956-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Materias:
Comunicación animal.
Feromonas.
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.

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