动物化学通讯及其功能与机制

Functions and Underlying Mechanisms of Chemical Communication in Animals

化学通讯在动物的社群行为中占有重要地位,它对于维系社会等级,传递发情信息,个体识别、亲缘识别等具有重要作用。自第一种外激素被发现,迄今已经整整50年,有关化学通讯功能及其机制的研究也取得了很大的进展,并呈现出一些新的特点。本文回顾了化学通讯的研究进展,对外激素的化学组成和释放、其感受机制、功能和生理及遗传调节等进行了总结,并对未来的研究趋势和热点问题进行了讨论。

Chemical communication plays an important role in regulating animal social life. It is helpful for them to maintain social hierarchy,indicate their reproductive states,recognize /discriminate conspecifics from one to another,kin vs. non-kin conspecifics. It has been 50 years since the first pheromone was found in 1959 by Karlson and Lscher. Scientists have made a major progress in exploring new pheromones and the underlying mechanisms of chemical communication. In this paper,we introduced both the general ...