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Cockroach aggregation pheromone: Directional orientation
Journal article

Cockroach aggregation pheromone: Directional orientation

William J. Bell, Theodore Burk and Gary R. Sams
Behavioral biology, Vol.9(2), pp.251-255
08/1973
PMID: 4721218

Abstract

Orientation of adult and immature cockroaches, Periplaneta americana, in a T-maze is directed by a feces-secreted aggregation pheromone. Tropochemotactic orientation is dependent on olfactory perception of the pheromone by antennal receptors.

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