kairomone

Etymology


of + English,  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  (1929–2011), and the American ecologist Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980) which was published in : see the quotation.

Noun

 * 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.

Translations

 * Catalan: kairomona
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 開洛蒙
 * Estonian: kairomoonid
 * Finnish: kairomoni
 * French:
 * Galician: cairomona
 * German: Kairomon
 * Lithuanian: kairomonas
 * Persian: کایرومون
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: κайромони