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BL
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982747
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b737117
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| Main Entry
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Wyatt, Tristram D.,1956-
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| Title & Author
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Pheromones and animal behaviour : : communication by smell and taste /\ Tristram D. Wyatt.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2003.
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1 online resource (xv, 391 pages) :: illustrations
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0511075774
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: 0511077343
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: 1107126657
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: 6610955824
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: 9780511075773
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: 9780511077340
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: 9780511202780
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: 9780511351334
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: 9780511555565
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: 9780511615061
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: 9780521485265
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: 9781107126657
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: 9786610955824
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052148068X
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0521485266
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1280955821
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9781280955822
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-358) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Animal communication.
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Chemical senses.
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Pheromones.
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Animal Behavior.
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Animal communication.
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Chemical senses.
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Health Biological Sciences.
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Pheromones.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Zoology-- General.
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Zoology.
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Chemoreceptors-- physiology
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| Dewey Classification
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591.59
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| LC Classification
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QL776.W93 2003eb
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| NLM classification
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2004 D-403
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QL 776W976p 2003
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42.66bcl
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