aphrodisiac pheromone

biochemistry

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chemoreception and pheromones

  • Chemoreception
    In chemoreception: Aphrodisiac pheromones

    The males of some insects produce aphrodisiac pheromones that induce females to mate once the two sexes have come together. One of the most remarkable and fully understood examples of this concerns monarch butterflies (although not the well-known North American monarch). Males of…

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