The instinctive and species-specific behavioural response of animals to pheromones has
intrigued biologists for a long time. Recent molecular and electrophysiological approaches …

Mammalian pheromones control a myriad of innate social behaviors and acutely regulate
hormone levels. Responses to pheromones are highly robust, reproducible, and stereotyped …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Several developments during the past 15 years have profoundly affected our understanding
of the vomeronasal system (VNS) of vertebrates. In the mid 1990s, the vomeronasal …

The ability to recognize individuals is essential to many aspects of social behaviour, such as
the maintenance of stable social groups, parent–offspring or mate recognition, inbreeding …

Mammalian social systems rely on signals passed between individuals conveying
information including sex, reproductive status, individual identity, ownership, competitive …

Recent insights have revolutionized our understanding of the importance of chemical
signals in influencing vertebrate behaviour. Previously unknown families of pheromonal …

In recent years, considerable progress has been achieved in the comprehension of the
profound effects of pheromones on reproductive physiology and behavior. Pheromones …

Many mammals use scent marks to advertise territory ownership, but only recently have we
started to understand the complexity of these scent signals and the types of information that …

The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is a chemoreceptive organ that is thought to transduce
pheromones into electrical responses that regulate sexual, hormonal and reproductive …