Animal Communication by Pheromones

Preface 1 IntroductionText 2 The Pheromonal Communication System 2.1 Emission of Pheromone 2.2 Transport of Pheromone 2.3 Reception of Pheromone 3 Mechanisms of Movement and Orientation to Pheromone Sources 3.1 Orientation with Respect to a Pheromone Gradient 3.2 Terrestrial Odor-Trail Following 3.3 Aerial Odor-Trail Following 3.4 Distances of Pheromone Communication 4 Recognition Pheromone Behavior 4.1 Recognition of Individuals 4.2 Recognition of Status 4.3 Recognition of Group 4.4 Recognition of Home 4.5 Recognition of Home Range 5 Aggregation Pheromone Behavior 5.1 Exploitation of Sources of Food 5.2 Aggregation prior to Sexual Behavior 5.3 Aggregation prior to Aggressive Behavior 5.4 Maintenance of Societal and Family Groups 5.5 Colonization of Habitats 5.6 Other Aggregation Behavior 6 Dispersion Pheromone Behavior 6.1 Maintenance of Optimal Interindividual Spacing 6.2 Maintenance of Territories 6.3 Dispersion in Response to Alarm Pheromones 6.4 Antiaggregation 7 Aggression Pheromone Behavior 7.1 Stimulation of Aggression toward an Individual of Another Species 7.2 Stimulation of Aggression toward a Conspecific 7.3 Inhibition of Aggression toward a Conspecific 7.4 Release of Pheromone as an Aggressive Act 8 Sex Pheromone Behavior 8.1 Stimulation of Aggregation 8.2 Stimulation of Courtship and Copulation 8.3 Hierarchies of Sex Pheromone Behavior 8.4 Human Sex Pheromones 9 Environmental and Physiological Control of Sex Pheromone Behavior 9.1 Environmental Control 9.2 Physiological Control 10 Sex Pheromones and Reproductive Isolation Text 11 Evolution of Pheromonal Communication Text Bibliography Taxonomic Index Subject Index