The Proposed Biological Term `Pheromone'
Abstract
IT was our aim to introduce, for a class of substances, a scientific term of international usefulness. Based on a clear definition, it should be a short word easily pronounced in many languages. This is not the case with `pherormone'. It must be admitted that the derivation of `pheromone' from hormān is questionable. We would therefore not insist on it ; but we regard the ending `mone' as a proper suffix which is used in hormone, gamone, termone and pheromone.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 1959
- DOI:
- 10.1038/1831835b0
- Bibcode:
- 1959Natur.183.1835K