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What is a pheromone?

What is a pheromone? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
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Short sensilla on the maxillary and labial palps, serve to recognize pheromone and touch when the male mounts the female.
Other oil fractions showed additional effects, blocking pheromone reception or narcotising and intoxicating animals.
Here, we use salamander pheromone delivery as a test case for dissecting the evolutionary dynamics at multiple levels in a functional complex.
Half of the group added the odorless pheromone to their preferred perfume, the other half added a placebo.
A simple plug-in diffuser that disperses a dog appeasing pheromone into the room is available at some veterinary practices.
Now scientists have identified a natural odor, or pheromone, released by the male curculio weevil that attracts both males and females.

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