kairomone

利他素

发音

UK /ˈkaɪɹə(ʊ)məʊn/
其它
US /ˈkaɪɹəˌmoʊn/

词形变化

kairomones 复数 kairomones

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    开洛蒙

    化学 生物

词源

Blend 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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