| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 391 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-358) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animal communication.
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Animal communication. |
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Pheromones.
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Pheromones. |
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Chemical senses.
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Chemical senses. |
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Pheromones. |
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Animal Communication. |
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Chemoreceptors -- physiology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wyatt, Tristram D., 1956- Pheromones and animal behaviour. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 052148068X 0521485266 (DLC) 2002024628 (OCoLC)49356114 |
| ISBN |
0511077343 (electronic book) |
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9780511077340 (electronic book) |
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0511075774 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511075773 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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051135133X (electronic book) |
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9780511351334 (electronic book) |
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051161506X (electronic book) |
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9780511615061 (electronic book) |
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0521485266 (Paper) |
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052148068X (Cloth) |
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1280955821 |
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9781280955822 |
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