Publisher's Synopsis
This is the seventh in a series of books on chemocommunication and chemical ecology in animals from fish to humans. This volume grew out of the Symposium on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates VII, hosted in July 1994 in Germany. More than 200 scientists from 22 countries contributed to the symposium and this book. Expression of olfactory receptors, effect of the major histocompatibility complex and of bacteria on semiochemicals are "growing points" of the young disciplines of chemoreception and chemocommunication studies. They are balanced by a strong field of behaviour studies in abroad array of taxa. Investigations of sensory inputs deal with olfaction, vomolfaction, taste and terminal nerve. The breadth of the topics covered attests to the vigour and importance of the study of chemical signals in vertebrates, including, of course, humans.
