Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- List of SI prefixes
- List of Abbreviations
- 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 and semiochemicals
- 6 Semiochemicals 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
- 13 On the scent of human attraction: human pheromones?
- Appendix An introduction to chemical terms for non-chemists
- References
- List of Credits
- Index
Preface to the second edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- List of SI prefixes
- List of Abbreviations
- 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 and semiochemicals
- 6 Semiochemicals 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
- 13 On the scent of human attraction: human pheromones?
- Appendix An introduction to chemical terms for non-chemists
- References
- List of Credits
- Index
Summary
Preface to the second edition
This book is designed to bring together people already working on chemical communication and to encourage others, especially chemists (who have a vital role in this research), to take up the challenge. My aim has been to make an evolutionary understanding of chemical communication, including pheromones, accessible to a broad scientific and lay audience.
Pheromone research brings together scientists with many different areas of expertise, from a rich diversity of chemists to biologists of many kinds. Each area of expertise has its own jargon and concepts – a behavioral ecologist speaks a different language from a neuroscientist. The book recognizes that every scientist is a novice outside their own subject, even science close to their own, so I try to explain ideas in terms understandable by non-specialists while at the same time aiming to be up to date and detailed enough for the specialist. I also wanted to write a book that could be enjoyed by the majority of the world’s scientists whose first language is not English and thus also clearer for everyone.
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- Pheromones and Animal BehaviorChemical Signals and Signatures, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014