Pheromones and Animal Behaviour

Communicattion by Smell and Taste

Tristram D. Wyatt

408 pages, parution le 17/02/2003

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Résumé

We are entering one of the most exciting periods in the study of chemical communication since the first pheromones were identified some 40 years ago. This rapid progress is reflected in this book, the first to cover the whole animal kingdom at this level for 25 years. The importance of chemical communication is illustrated with examples from a diverse range of animals including humans, marine copepods, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, moths, snakes, goldfish, elephants and mice. It 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, this book gives an introduction to the rapid progress in our understanding of olfaction at the molecular and neurological level. In addition, it offers chemists, molecular and neurobiologists an insight into the ecological, evolutionary and behavioural context of olfactory communication.

Contents

1. Animals in a chemical world
2. Discovering pheromones
3. Sex pheromones: finding and choosing mates
4. Coming together and keeping apart: aggregation and host-marking pheromones
5. Scent marking and territorial behaviour
6. Pheromones and social organization
7. Pheromones and recruitment communication
8. Fight-or-flight: alarm pheromones
9. Perception and action of pheromones: from receptor molecules to brains and behaviour
10. Finding the source: pheromones and orientation behaviour
11. Breaking the code: illicit signallers and receivers of semiochemical signals
12. Using pheromones: applications
13. On the scent of human attraction: human pheromones?
Appendix A: An introduction to pheromones for non-chemists
References.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Tristram D. Wyatt
Parution	17/02/2003
Nb. de pages	408
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	890g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521485265
ISBN13	978-0-521-48526-5