OLFACTORY PERCEPTION IN MIGRATING SALMON I. L-SERINE, A SALMON REPELLENT IN MAMMALIAN SKIN

Idler , D. R.; Fagerlund , U. H. M.; Mayoh , Helen

doi:10.1085/jgp.39.6.889

OLFACTORY PERCEPTION IN MIGRATING SALMON : I. L-SERINE, A SALMON REPELLENT IN MAMMALIAN SKIN

D. R. Idler ,

D. R. Idler

From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

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U. H. M. Fagerlund ,

U. H. M. Fagerlund

From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

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Helen Mayoh

From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

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D. R. Idler

From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

U. H. M. Fagerlund

From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Helen Mayoh

From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Received: January 25 1956

Online Issn: 1540-7748

Print Issn: 0022-1295

1956

The properties of a repellent for migrating salmon present in mammalian skin are discussed. l-Serine which is present in the washings of human skin has been shown to have repellent activity at extremely high dilution.

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OLFACTORY PERCEPTION IN MIGRATING SALMON : I. L-SERINE, A SALMON REPELLENT IN MAMMALIAN SKIN

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