kairomone
Any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient…Any substance produced by an individual of one species (often an insect) that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer.
Meaning
1 sensesAny substance produced by an individual of one species (often an insect) that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer.
Kairomon
κайромониκajromony
Translations
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Origin
Blend of Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós, “advantage; profit”, noun) + English pheromone, coiBlend of Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós, “advantage; profit”, noun) + English pheromone, coined in the 1970 article “Allomones and Kairomones: Transspecific Chemical Messengers” by the American geneticist William Lacy Brown, Jr. (1913–1991), the German-American ecologist and entomologist Thomas Eisner (1929–2011), and the American ecologist Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980) which was published in BioScience: see the quotation.
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Forms
plural: kairomones| Singular | kairomone |
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