pheromone

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This reduces her ability to lay eggs and also lowers her production of methyl oleate, a pheromone that normally signals to workers that she is healthy.

From Science Daily

When elephants release sex pheromones, start randomly tooting or begin rubbing against each other, this is not chaotic or random behavior.

From Salon

So in the new study, Ryo Taniguchi, a paleontologist at Hokkaido University, and colleagues took a different approach: looking for the organs that detect these pheromones.

From Science Magazine

They even use it to make pheromones that attract mates.

From Science Daily

Between 2009 and 2018, the researchers interbred the butterflies and recorded how traits such as wing shape and the chemical makeup of sex pheromones changed in the resulting offspring.

From Science Magazine