Pheromones and Animal Behaviour : Communication by Smell and Taste (Paperback)

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.