Research Catalog

Title

Pheromones and animal behaviour : communication by smell and taste / Tistram D. Wyatt.

Author

Wyatt, Tristram D., 1956-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xv, 391 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"The book is designed to be advanced and up-to-date, but at the same time accessible to readers whatever their scientific background. For students of ecology, evolution and behaviour, it gives an introduction to the rapid progress in our understanding of olfaction at the molecular and neurological level. In addition, it offers chemists, molecular biologists and neurobiologists an insight into the ecological, evolutionary and behavioural context of olfactory communication."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Chemical senses
• Animal communication
• Pheromones
• Animal Communication
• Chemoreceptor Cells > physiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-358) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 052148068X
• 0521485266 (pb.)

LCCN

^^2002024628

OCLC

• 49356114
• SCSB-10360091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library