Pheromones: fish fear factor

Curr Biol. 2012 Mar 20;22(6):R183-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.025.

Abstract

Fish, like many other animals, panic when another individual is injured. Now, the chemical nature of a substance that mediates this reaction has been uncovered.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chondroitin / physiology*
  • Fear / physiology*
  • Odorants*
  • Zebrafish / physiology*

Substances

  • Chondroitin