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Pheromones - what's new in the literature
This is organised by the chapter headings in Wyatt (2003). If you would like to suggest material to include here (and/or a second edition) do email me  tristram.wyatt@zoo.ox.ac.uk

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 organisation

7 Pheromones and recruitment communication

8 Fight or flight: alarm pheromones

Fujwara-Tsujii, N., Yamagata, N., Takeda, T., Mizunami, M. and Yamaoka, R. (2006) Behavioral Responses to the Alarm Pheromone of the Ant Camponotus obscuripes (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Zoological Science 23, 353-358. link

9 Perception and action of pheromones: from receptor molecules to brains and behaviour

Fujwara-Tsujii, N., Yamagata, N., Takeda, T., Mizunami, M. and Yamaoka, R. (2006) Behavioral Responses to the Alarm Pheromone of the Ant Camponotus obscuripes (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Zoological Science 23, 353-358. link

Yamagata, N., Fujiwara-Tsujii, N., Yamaoka, R. and Mizunami, M. (2005) Pheromone Communication and the Mushroom Body of the Ant, Camponotus obscuripes (Hymenoptera : Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 92, 532-536. link

 

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?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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