Pheromones and animal behaviour : communication by smell and taste /
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.