a chemical substance secreted externally by certain animals, such as insects, affecting the behaviour or physiology of another species detrimentally
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Examples of 'allomone' in a sentence
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These novel peptides most likely act as an appeasement allomone and may serve as models for taming insect aggression.
Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede, Mareike Hirschfeld, Thomas Schmitt, Philippe Favreau,Reto Stöcklin, Cora Wunder, Dietrich Mebs 2013, 'Chemical camouflage--a frog's strategy to co-exist with aggressive ants.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3859521?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Bioassays indicated that the glandular secretions function as a defensive allomone, causing high levels of irritation in the heterospecific.
Kevin F. Welzel, Shao Hung Lee, Aaron T. Dossey, Kamlesh R. Chauhan, Dong-Hwan Choe 2018, 'Verification of Argentine ant defensive compounds and their behavioral effects onheterospecific competitors and conspecific nestmates', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-19435-6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)