primer pheromone
biochemistry
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chemoreception
- In chemoreception: Primer pheromones
Primer pheromones are important in aspects of social physiology in a range of animals. In mammals they are influential in coordinating reproductive physiology, and compounds excreted in the urine are especially important (see below Behaviour and chemoreception: Mammals). For example, the
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