marking pheromone

biochemistry

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chemoreception

  • Chemoreception
    In chemoreception: Pheromones

    Marking pheromones require characteristics opposite those of alarm pheromones, since their function is to convey a signal to other members of the species for a relatively long term. Thus, they demand some persistence, though not so much that they remain when their utility is past.…

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