Titlebook: Methods in Chemical Ecology Volume 2; Bioassay Methods Kenneth F. Haynes,Jocelyn G. Millar Book 1998 Springer Science+Business Media New Yo

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Bioassays for Mammals and Birds,chapter presents methods to assess the role of chemical stimuli in the behavior of birds and mammals. An overview of the chemosensory capacities of birds and mammals to perceive stimuli is provided first, followed by a description of test paradigms that can be incorporated into bioassays. The prepon

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Bioassays for Allelopathy in Terrestrial Plants,n involved in the search for potential herbicides and growth inhibitors, and commonly ignore observed positive effects, publishing only the inhibitory data. The narrower definition is perhaps unwise, since most compounds are both stimulatory and inhibitory depending on the concentration used.

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Bioassay Methods for Amphibians and Reptiles,of the chemical signals themselves. For example, many taxa of amphibians have both life history and environmental constraints that expose a given animal to an aqueous environment as a larva, then in just a few weeks, metamorphosis imposes a terrestrial existence.

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Bioassays for Mammals and Birds,ecific behaviors. The examples, like past studies in mammalian and avian chemical ecology, are disproportionately represented by rodents. Most of the described procedures, however, could be modified for other species, provided the apparatuses and the response variables can be altered to accommodate the different subject and stimuli.

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