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Informationen zum Autor Tristram D. Wyatt is a senior researcher at Oxford University's Department of Zoology and an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is interested in how pheromones evolve throughout the animal kingdom, at both molecular and behavioral levels. These broad interests give him a unique vantage point, allowing him to draw together developments across the subject. Klappentext This book explains how animals use chemical communication, emphasising the evolutionary context and covering fields from ecology to neuroscience and chemistry. Zusammenfassung Building on the strengths of the first edition! this detailed introduction to pheromones has been extensively revised to cover advances made over the last ten years. It explains how pheromones work whilst emphasising the evolutionary context. The approach is integrative! covering fields from ecology to neuroscience and chemistry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of SI prefixes; 1. Animals in a chemical world; 2. Methods for identifying and studying semiochemicals; 3. Pheromones, chemical cues and sexual selection; 4. Coming together and keeping apart: aggregation pheromones and host-marking pheromones; 5. Territorial behavior, pheromones and signature mixtures; 6. Pheromones and social organization; 7. Pheromones and recruitment communication; 8. Fight or flight: alarm pheromones and cues; 9. Perception and response to chemical communication: from chemosensory receptors to brains, behavior and development; 10. Finding the source: pheromones and orientation behavior; 11. Breaking the code: illicit signalers and receivers of semiochemicals; 12. Using semiochemicals: applications of pheromones and signature mixtures; 13. On the scent of human attraction: human pheromones?; Appendix. An introduction to some chemical terms for non-chemists; References; Index.
