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aphrodisiac pheromone

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chemoreception and pheromones

  • Chemoreception enables animals to respond to chemicals that can be tasted and smelled in their environments. Many of these chemicals affect behaviours such as food preference and defense.
    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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