SUCCESS OF THE SMELLIEST: HOW PHEROMONE SIGNALS

SUCCESS OF THE SMELLIEST:
HOW PHEROMONE SIGNALS
EVOLVE (AND DO HUMANS
HAVE THEM?)
Tristram Wyatt
Zoology Department,
Oxford University, UK
Pheromones are evolved signal molecules produced, for example, by all
male moths in a species or all female rabbits. Aquatic animals like fish and
lobsters also use pheromones. Pheromones offer remarkable opportunities to
study the evolution of signals and changes in signal and receiver during speciation,
from enzyme pathways to receptors and neurons, at every level from genes to
populations. But do humans have pheromones? The talk will be aimed at a
broad audience, for both scientists and non-scientists. @pheromoneEvo
HOST: Rui Oliveira
19 SETEMBRO 2016
12H30
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ENTRADA LIVRE
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