Chemical Communication in the Pig

Abstract

Recent discoveries by the Chemotaxis group at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution confirm that chemical information is critical in the lives of many marine animals. An understanding of these chemical signals and clues will be a prerequisite to wise management and farming of the sea's living resources. Alewives return from the sea to spawn in the streams of their birth. It is the chemical 'fingerprint' of the homestream which guides them. The sexual and social behaviors of many marine organisms are controlled by chemical signals. Several examples include reproduction in the lobster and mate, and sp recognition in the blennid fishes