"Allohormones": A new class of bioactive substances or old wine in new skins? [1]

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 161-162

  Ruther, Joachim ^a   Steidle, Johannes L M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; HORMONES; PHEROMONES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0036525454     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0288-8     Document Type: Letter

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