pheromone

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It is a human pheromone which is a chemical attractant that is in body secretions like perspiration.

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  1. noun A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that influences the behavior or development of others of the same species, often functioning as an attractant of the opposite sex.

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  • And in 1971, researchers determined that the vomeronasal organ (VNO), a tiny cone-shaped tube found in the tissue of the nasal passages of most mammals, functioned as a pheromone receptor in humans So, after several decades spent in the business world, Berliner returned in 1989 to his old skin substances, which he'd left frozen for 30 years. —  Omni: January 1994
  • Learning to shut off the pheromone-producing gland was the same as shutting off a roach's genetic ability to replicate itself. —  Destroyer 107: Feast or Famine
  • We show that small colonies forage in a disorganized manner, with a transition to organized pheromone-based foraging in larger colonies. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • While absorbing the Blueshammer ersatz and pheromone-scented metallurgy of —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Yonsei Proteome Research Center and Biomedical Proteome Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea When Caenorhabditis elegans senses dauer pheromone (daumone), signaling inadequate growth conditions, it enters the dauer state, which is capable of long-term survival. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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  1. Greek pherein, to carry; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots + (hor)mone.
 

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