In boars, pheromones found in boar saliva are known to cause the female to assume a mating position. |
However, the use of nares to detect pheromones is probably the most important type of chemoreception in fishes. |
Of course, the nurses I worked with were not exactly coquettes sending out pheromones of enticement. |
But some land vertebrates have lost some or all of their ability to detect pheromones. |
Female gall wasps emit chemical pheromones into the plant stem to attract males in the spring. |
We all know about pheromones, the chemicals that supposedly float betwixt us carrying certain messages, such as sexual availability. |