Pheromones

Pheromones

Species-specific odorants that play important roles in behaviour in some animals, including many mammals.

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pheromones

Biology; Neuroscience

Species-specific odorants that play important roles in behavior in some animals, including many mammals.

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Chemical substance secreted by an animal to produce a response by other members of the same species.

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Natural environment; Coral reefs

A hormone-like substance that is secreted by an organism into the environment as a specific signal to another organism, usually of the same species.

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Archaeology; Evolution

A chemical substance produced by some organisms and emitted into the environment to communicate with others of the same species. Pheromones play an important role in the social ...

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Biotechnology; Genetic engineering

A hormone-like substance that is secreted by an organism into the environment as a specific signal to another organism, usually of the same species.

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Chemistry; Materials chemistry

A chemical compound made by one animal that affects the behavior of other animals of the same kind.

medial longitudinal fasciculus

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tract that carries excitatory projections from the abducens nucleus to the contralateral oculomotor nucleus; important in coordinating conjugate eye movements.

commissures

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tracts that cross the midline of the brain. See also anterior commissure.

postganglionic axons

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that link visceral motor neurons in autonomic ganglia to their targets.

climbing fibers

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that originate in the inferior olive, ascend through the inferior cerebellar peduncle, and make terminal arborizations that invest the dendritic tree of Purkinje cells.

saccades

Biology; Neuroscience

Ballistic, conjugate eye movements that change the point of foveal fixation.

olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs)

Biology; Neuroscience

Bipolar neurons in olfactory epithelium that contain receptors for odorants.

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